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Rome and Athens have identified Turkish and Russian involvement in a growing security threat from North Africa.
Greece has declared a three-month halt to all asylum applications for migrants arriving from North Africa. The European Union ...
The European Union’s commissioner for migration says Europe will take a firmer stance with Libyan authorities following a ...
The coast guard noted 7,300 asylum-seekers have reached Crete and a nearby island this year, up from fewer than 5,000 in 2024 ...
Tsipras’s “somersault”, or kolotoumba as the Greeks called it, was a costly gambit that set back the economic recovery and ...
The European Commission appears to endorse Greek government plans to suspend some applications for asylum, in what civil ...
The suspension will apply only to migrants reaching Crete by sea. Migrants entering illegally will be detained, Mitsotakis ...
Greece has rescued hundreds of migrants off its southern islands of Gavdos and Crete in five separate incidents since Friday, ...
Increased migrant flows from Libya to southern Crete are causing the Greek government much concern. The arrival of 1,400 ...
Today, July 14, marks France’s national holiday— “a celebration whose primary aim is to promote national unity,” says Laurence Auer, French Ambassador to Greece, in an interview with the ...
Dozens were injured, including at least four children, after two public buses collided on Friday in the southern Athens ...