As the Migration Ministry announces the end of cash allowance for asylum seekers living independently, experts fear that the living situation of thousands is going to deteriorate. 53 unaccompanied children are living on the streets of Thessaloniki, NGO finds. The lack...
Blunt human rights abuse persist at land and at sea in Greece. Brutal pushbacks by Greek officials in the past days were reported from the Evros region and off Lesvos. Mare Liberum reports about 55 pushback cases in the Aegean, affecting a total of 1,479 people in the...
Amid a high-level EU visit to Turkey seeking to reconfirm the EU-Turkey Agreement, Greece alleges Turkish facilitation of migration to Europe. Meanwhile, reports of pushbacks continue to mount and the situation in camps across Greece remain dire. In their respective...
European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson toured the eastern Aegean and announced over 250 million euro of EU funds for reception structures on five Greek islands. The Commissioner and Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi said new...
A Border Criminologies blog post reiterates the violent pushbacks from Greece to Turkey as well as abuse of migrants on both sides of the Greek Turkish border. While the Reception and Identification Centre VIAL on Chios under gradual closure is in a deplorable state,...
