Greece

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...

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 Greek Coast Guard deployed a unmanned blimp on the island of Samos on Tuesday to help combat illegal immigration and to augment search and rescue operations in the eastern Aegean Sea. This is the first time airships have been...

While speaking to Parliament on Friday, Greece's Immigration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas conceded that the government is overwhelmed in its efforts to tackle the refugee crisis. “It is true that we overburdened certain municipalities,” Mouzalas said in reference to northern...

Two boats carrying 52 migrants and refugees were collected early Sunday morning off the island of Lesvos by two Frontex vessels. The migrants were then transported to the Mytilene Port to be registered at the Moria hotspot. After Sunday's arrivals, the...

Greece awaits the agreement on refugee flow between the European Union and Turkey at the summit in Brussels on Thursday and Friday. The draft plan that was presented by the President of the European Council Donald Tusk to EU leaders...

Greece and Turkey are planning a series of high-level bilateral meetings to discuss tackling the ongoing migrant influx. The trilateral talks between Greece, Turkey and Germany are likely to be called off, after German Chancellor Angela Merkel has come under pressure...

The Greek government is to change immigration policy under constant pressure by the European Union in regards to stemming the migrant inflow to Europe. Earlier in the year, Athens had shut down migrant detention centers due to congestion and inhumane...

Former deputy minister of immigration policy Tasia Christodoulopoulou said that locals on Greek islands make a lot of money out of the refugee overflow. This was yet another controversial statement made by Christodoulopoulou who also said that the real influx...

Greece’s Deputy Immigration Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou called the thousands of migrants sleeping in the streets of Athens and Aegean Sea islands a "tourist attraction." Speaking to Proto Thema newspaper, Christodoulopoulou said that the thousands of homeless migrants are not a...

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...

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...

The Greek government in a pilot project is expected to use a drone in order to be able to oversee the country’s sea border in the Aegean sea -- which is considered one of the main avenues for immigration...

On Tuesday, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, Cecilia Malmström, met with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and the Minister of Public Order, Nikos Dendias, focusing on the immigration issue in Greece. In particular, they presented Malmström with Greece’s revised...