Greece could extend a suspension on examining asylum applications passed by parliament last month if migrant flows from Libya ...

The number of migrants arriving on Greece's island of Crete has dropped since the government paused asylum hearings for three ...

The number of irregular migrants reaching the Greek island of Crete has plummeted since the government announced a ...

The right for anyone to request protection, or asylum, is inscribed in EU and international law and in the constitution of ...

Thanos Plevris, Greece’s recently appointed migration minister, has called the influx of refugees across the Mediterranean an “invasion.” Several lawmakers from the ruling New Democracy party have ...

It to some time, but it appears Europe is waking up to the impact of the invasion of migrants on its shores. Greece is reportedly facing a […] ...

By 2024, irregular migrant arrivals to the European Union had fallen to around 240,000, less than a quarter of 2015 levels, ...

Crete is experiencing a huge influx of migrants as traffickers shift to Mediterranean routes from North Africa. Crete, Greece ...

From July 1 to 13, 2,619 migrants landed on Crete, a surge far beyond anything previously experienced on the idyll beloved by ...

“Thanos Plevris was my protégé,” he stressed. When Plevris’s father’s Nazi propaganda was too much in the public spotlight, the son was promoted instead and first entered parliament in 2007.

Thanos Plevris, 48, succeeded Voridis and is expected to maintain Greece’s hard line in migration policy. Both Plevris and Voridis joined the conservative New Democracy party in 2012, from the ...

Authorities in eastern Libya have refused entry to three European ministers and the EU commissioner for migration on alleged entry violations.