Greek PM to CNN, we do not push refugees back
Mitsotakis says Greece has 'tough but fair' border management policies and has denied claims of illegal pushbacks of asylum seekers at sea.
Mitsotakis says Greece has 'tough but fair' border management policies and has denied claims of illegal pushbacks of asylum seekers at sea.
Austria has begun testing drones on its borders to Hungary and Slovenia. Equipped with live-tracking and heat-sensing cameras, the drones will be used to detect the movements of smugglers and irregular migrants.
A man died on Thursday when a group of about 300 tried to storm the border fence separating the Spanish enclave Melilla from Morocco. Spanish authorities also discovered a boat near the Canary Islands with ten corpses on board.
Greece's President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has met with two of the three famous 'Lesbos grandmas' on the Aegean island. The president paid tribute to the three women during a tour of the northeast Aegean to check in on the status o1
As the Lampedusa hotspot becomes more overcrowded, Italian regional governors are protesting the transfer of migrants who arrived on the island to their regions. Meanwhile, a quarantine ship docked at Lampedusa is to take around 2501