Greece

The Republic of Cyprus has declared its readiness to become a member of the Schengen Area and is only awaiting its EU evaluation, Cyprus' Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulides announced on Monday. Speaking before the House Committee on Finance, the Minister said...

Greece has three months to get its act together on the question of border controls or face expulsion from the Schengen area, Greek media outlets of all types screamed over a draft report released earlier in the week by the European Commission...

Having long ago lost its sovereignty in return for bailouts, Greece finds itself now in a position where its borders could be sealed off from the rest of Europe as EU leaders seek to find a way to stop...

On Sunday, ELAS, the leadership of the Greek Police announced that they are going to be suspending the new controls which enforce stricter rules at Greece's entry points. ELAS said that the suspension will last at least the next six...

The correspondent of Greece's public broadcaster ERT in France, Thomais Papaioannou, said she was treated as a non Schengen Zone citizen when she arrived at Paris airport. The incident the reporter posted in social media has sparked a public debate regarding...

Germany’s Bertelsmann Foundation released a report today that says that the collapse of the Schengen area could cost the European Union economy up to 1.4 trillion euros over the next decade. Employing a worse case scenario in which the reintroduction...

As Europe’s refugee and migrant crisis continues with no end in sight, the voices against Greece for alleged failure to fulfill its border obligations under the Schengen agreement seem to grow louder with every passing day. At the forefront of...

The issue of 'evicting' any member-state from the Schengen area was neither raised nor discussed, European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Friday, while speaking at the Economist's 'The World in 2016 Gala Dinner' in...

The Greek government is annoyed and concerned over the ultimatum given by the European Commission to better protect its borders from the migrant influx and the threat to be expelled from the Schengen zone. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reacted...

The European Union bemoans once again alleged lack of Greek border control to stem migrants and threatens Greece with expulsion from the Schengen area if it does not do more about it. Indeed, a draft report by the European Commission...

On Thursday, the UK took the Greek island of Crete off its list of areas from which returning British travelers must isolate. According to the UK government's website gov.uk, as of 4 AM, Sunday October 18, those returning from Crete...

In response to a patchwork of rules and quarantine regulations across the European continent, aviation authorities from several European nations are now calling for a unified response to the coronavirus. The groups ACI -Europe, Airlines for Europe (A4E) and ATA...

Greek Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis took part in an informal meeting of EU tourism ministers via video conference earlier this week as part of a new proposal to better coordinate the EU's response to the coronavirus pandemic. The videoconference meeting...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and French President Emmanuel Macron said they were in "complete agreement" regarding the direction to take in response to Turkey's repeated incursions and infractions in the Eastern Mediterranean, according to government sources in Athens. The...

The father of British PM Boris Johnson has broken restrictions imposed by his son to fly to Greece via Bulgaria, it emerged on Thursday. Stanley Johnson flew despite Foreign Office guidance saying Britons should not go abroad unless they have...