The European Union will offer economic aid to Lebanon when the European Commission president and the Cypriot president jointly visit Beirut on Thursday, a Cypriot official has said.
MIGRATION
Authorities have dropped criminal charges against dozens of international aid workers, ranging from spying to facilitating what authorities had called illegal entry into the country through the island of Lesvos, court documents showed on Tuesday.
Greek rescuers found 10 migrants on a rocky area of the island of Samos overnight after recovering the body of one migrant and rescuing 25 whose boat had sunk, the coastguard said on Monday.
Greece has recovered the body of one migrant and rescued 25, while searching for at least four more believed missing after their boat sank off the island of Samos, the coastguard said on Sunday.
One of America’s greatest soccer players is spending the week in Greece working with kids and reminding everyone that the most important moments in sports don’t always end with a group of champagne-soaked winners holding up a trophy.
European Union auditors said on Wednesday that they are unable to establish whether some of the billions of euros the bloc has given to Turkey to help it cope with Syrian refugees is actually having any impact.
Large numbers of unaccompanied minors continue to arrive in Greece, with one in three from Egypt. According to data up to early April, 2,157 unaccompanied minors have been registered and accommodated this year.
A three-member Criminal Appeal Court of Thessaloniki convicted on Tuesday a police officer to seven years and eight months in prison for his involvement in the illegal smuggling of migrants through Thessaloniki’s international airport.
There were “no significant changes” in the human rights situation in Greece over the past year, the US State Department said in its annual report which includes, however, a list of issues pertaining to the treatment of migrants, police and the use of spyware.
A week after Cyprus suspended the processing of asylum applications from Syrians due to a sharp increase in arrivals, the president of the Mediterranean island, Nikos Christodoulides, warned that the EU country cannot accommodate more refugees from the war-torn country.
A recent study sheds light on the challenges faced by migrant graduates in the European Union, highlighting the phenomenon of “brain waste,” where overqualified migrants end up in low-skilled jobs or unemployment.
The United Nations’ refugee agency said Friday that Cypriot efforts at sea to stop numerous Syrian refugee-laden boats departing Lebanon from reaching the European Union-member island nation mustn’t contravene international human rights laws or put passengers at risk.
The policy of rapprochement with Turkey had helped decrease illegal migration flows, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said from Lesvos.
Under an overcast sky on the Greek island of Lesvos, Afghan asylum-seeker Safika placed a red rose on the grave of a refugee who died trying to reach Europe. The tombstone read “unknown.”
EU Commissioner Margaritis Schinas on Friday hailed the bloc’s new rules for handling irregular arrivals of asylum seekers and migrants.
At least 18,500 citizens from countries outside the European Union now work legally in Greece..
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