FRONTEX

The situation in Idomeni-Greece is going from bad to worse. The Greek economy is beset by the blocking of the railway line and the closure of borders by FYROM. The situation has reached an impasse, and the matter was...

Greece is expected to step up border controls with closer cooperation with Frontex, amid talk about the country being suspended from the Schengen Agreement. Jean Asselborn, the foreign minister of Luxembourg, who holds the rotating chairmanship of ministerial meetings on...

The European Union will insist on an action plan that includes joint Greek-Turkish patrols in the Aegean in order to tackle the refugee crisis, according to an official EU document. According to a Euro2day.gr report citing an official EU document...

  Over 540,000 migrants and refugees entered Europe through the Greek islands between January 1, 2015 and October 1, 2015, according to a latest report published by Frontex. The European Union's border patrol agency noted that this is 13 times the number that had...

A new maritime tragedy in Greek waters culminated in two separate wrecks leaving 22 people dead and 144 rescued between the islands of Rhodes, Kalymnos and Kalolimnos. on Friday, the Hellenic Coast Guard and volunteer rescuers pulled 19 dead bodies out...

A new deadly shipwreck in Greek waters left four more refugees dead and allegedly 38 more missing on Wednesday as winds in the Aegean Sea reached 8 points on the Beaufort scale. A wooden boat carrying about 300 refugees --...

Greece agreed to accommodate 50,000 asylum seekers but not in a single refugee camp as originally proposed by the European Union, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said. The decision was taken after an emergency mini-summit on the migrant crisis in Brussels on...

An infant, a six-year old child, and a woman drowned on Sunday in their attempt to reach the coast of Lesvos. 13 are missing as well when a plastic boat overturned around 6:00 AM. 50 people were on the boat, which sunk...

The European Commission is planning to create a huge refugee reception center in Athens, Greece, to address the great influx of migrants in the country, according to German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel. The center is designed to host 40,000 - 50,000 people...

A boat carrying migrants and refugees capsized in the East Aegean Sea, North of the Greek island of Samos, on Wednesday. Turkish authorities rescued 16 people who were aboard the ship, according to Greek media reports. Greek authorities were informed that another 15 people...