Greece's coastguard on Monday said it had rescued around 230 asylum seekers near the island of Crete, after hundreds more landed over the weekend.

Greece is a popular route for migrants and authorities have had to carry out several rescue missions in recent days, one of ...

Europe’s EES launches a ‘passport in your pocket’ app, enabling non-EU travellers to upload passport information and selfies ...

Greek authorities have rescued more than 500 migrants off the country's southern islands of Crete and Gavdos in five separate ...

Henrik Hololei, a former transport official, is also accused of leaking sensitive internal documents with a non-EU country, ...

Greece has rescued hundreds of migrants off its southern islands of Gavdos and Crete in five separate incidents since Friday, ...

The UN refugee agency said that in 2021, 32,400 refugees and migrants had made the crossing from Libya to Europe, more than twice as many as in 2020. #EuropeNews ...

The first half of 2025 showed a dramatic decline in asylum applications, falling as much as 50% from last year’s figures.

Greece has been rescuing hundreds of migrants near islands like Gavdos and Crete amid rising arrivals from Libya. In response ...

The “Med 5” countries have notified the European Commission on their concerns with the deal, asking if it flouts EU law.View ...

The escalating migration crisis in Crete was dramatically underscored Sunday morning as a group of migrants arrived directly ...

Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov met with European Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration Magnus Brunner at the ...