Greece

Deputy Citizen Protection Minister Yiannis Panousis reacted strongly to a police document that circulated on Tuesday regarding "new policy on migrant detention procedures." The document states that illegal immigrants arrested in the Greek borders will not be detained but...

Greek Public Order and Citizen Protection Minister Vassilis Kikilias attended an EU Justice and Home Affairs Ministers' Council meeting in Milan yesterday, where he addressed the issue of illegal immigration. He stressed that there is the need for a joint...

The Hellenic Coast Guard will soon enrich its fleet with a new open-sea patrol vessel, the Stan Patrol 5509. The problem of illegal immigration flows into Greece by sea has made the need for modernizing and enforcing sea patrols a...

A meeting was held in Athens, Greece among  the Greek Minister of Defence Dimitris Avramopoulos, the Minister of Justice Charalampos Athanasiou, the Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection Vasilis Kikilias and the Minister of Maritime Affairs, Miltiadis Varvitsiotis, on the issue of...

In the aftermath of the Farmakonisi incident, New Democracy and SYRIZA continue to exchange words regarding Greece's pressing illegal immigration issue. In the latest round of rebuttals, it was Greek Government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou who, replying through a press...

The Minister of Public Order and Citizen Protection Nikos Dendias, connected terrorism with illegal immigration during the press conference that followed two unofficial meetings of EU Ministers for Justice and Home Affairs. During the meetings participants discussed the issues of international...

Arriving at a meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said he would "push" for solutions to the problems of illegal immigration and youth unemployment. As he said to reporters "We're here to push for more...

Ahead of May elections, more than six in 10 Greeks, or 61.7 percent, agree with recent government moves to clamp down on illegal immigration in the country, a poll showed. A survey of 1,610 Greeks over the age of 18...

Citizens' Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis on Monday announced that Greek authorities will step up police and coast guard patrols on land and sea, to stem any possible upsurge in the tide of illegal immigrants from the recently troubled North...

Citizens' Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis, speaking in the extreme northeastern city of Alexandroupolis on Sunday during a meeting on the increasingly urgent problem of illegal immigration, emphasised that "Greece is not a free-for-all." A briefing for officials cited the intensity...

Greek Immigration Minister Mitarakis recalled that one year ago Greece protected the EU from a breach of the border using FRONTEX troops.

Natasha Bertaud, deputy chief spokesperson of the European Commission, said on Monday morning that the EU is ready to mobilize anything it can to assist Greece to confront the recent massive increases of illegal immigration onto its soil. All the...

The illegal immigration from Turkey to the Greek islands of the eastern Aegean continued unabated this week, with 694 people arriving on the shores of Lesvos, Samos and Chios between early Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon. According to data from...

Bulgarian Defense Minister Krasimir Karakachanov wants to protect the European Union’s external borders with arms, he said in an interview published Thursday. Karakachanov told German newspaper Die Welt that he wants NATO or EU forces in Greece and Italy to stop...

It appears that not all migrants bottleneck in Greece and that some -- as many as 13,000 to be precise -- have managed to slip across the border to the north and enter other EU countries. According to immigration officials,...