Tag: Greece
Ylva Johansson and Notis Mitarachi have fundamentally different ideas about how Europe should handle migration. While the Greek migration minister has a reputation of being tough, Johansson, the EU commissioner for migration and home affairs, ...
HUMAN RIGHTS groups have condemned a top European Union official for window-dressing the bloc’s policy of containing refugees at Europe’s edges. Today, EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson was helicoptered to the Greek islands to ...
ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece “can do more” to investigate reports it has pushed asylum-seekers back to Turkey, a senior European Union official said on Monday, as Greek authorities pledged a new migrant reception centre on the ...
Mar 12, 2021 Erdogan: Seven years of iciness give way to diplomacy Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that there is “no problem” with reinitiating higher-level Egypt-Turkey ties. That’s a shift, coming after a seven-year freeze ...
CLOSE to 10,000 people were forcibly pushed back across the Aegean Sea to Turkey last year by the Greek coastguard and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), according to a human rights monitoring ...
“We should be in the field in order to be at the table.” So goes the motto that has underlain Turkey’s foreign interventions in recent years. The policy, which upholds Turkey’s involvement in conflicts beyond ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s fueling of hatred and hostility against Europe and the rest of the West does not seem a fit attitude either for Turkey’s European Union candidacy or its NATO membership. (Photo ...
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s president Saturday ratified a maritime deal setting its Mediterranean Sea boundary with Greece and demarcating an exclusive economic zone for oil and gas drilling rights, the state-run news agency reported, in ...
(Reuters) – Iran’s president warned on Wednesday that fighting between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces in the South Caucasus could spark a regional war and stepped up calls for a ceasefire. With fighting showing no ...
VATHY, Greece (AP) — On a pine-covered hill above the sparkling blue Aegean lies a boy’s grave, a teddy bear leaning against the white marble tombstone. His first boat ride was his last — the ...