This summer’s deadly and unforgiving heat wave is still affecting much of Europe. Greece’s popular tourist destination is the latest to suffer, where a wildfire over the weekend forced people to flee to safety. Authorities issue a warning that as temperatures climb, more fires might occur.
Apparently forcing asylum seekers onto a life raft and abandoning them at sea, Greek authorities have been caught on film. Human rights groups have accused Athens of these practices for a long time. Greece claims it has started a probe following the footage but denies conducting any pushbacks.
Research groups argue that the increased use of the Balkan route by migrants and asylum seekers to reach western Europe, as reported by the EU border agency Frontex, is due to the increasing danger of sea routes.
There have been demands for Turkey’s foreign ministry to take up the case following the death of a Turkish migrant who died after arriving on a Greek island late last year.
A photograph of migrants found exposed and naked at the Greece-Turkey border last week shocked the world and raised concerns that the migrants and refugees may be the latest victims of Turkey-Greece tensions
Over 50,000 Ukrainian migrants are living in Greece, including Oksana Poltorak and her three children. Oksana makes an effort to create a feeling of normalcy for herself and her children while sharing a house with two other families. Despite her best efforts, she can never have a normal day until her entire family is back again. Her husband and eldest son continue to defend their home in Ukraine
Within the scope of the European Arrest Mandate, a woman and three men were extradited from France and Greece to Portugal in December for crimes of theft, fraud, forgery of documents, qualified theft, rape, sexual abuse of minors and debauchery of private life, money laundering, forgery of documents and criminal association
KEDU (Kos Education) is a non-formal school run on Kos island by UNHCR’s partner ARSIS – Association for the Social Support of Youth. Since April 2018, when it opened with funds from the European Commission, KEDU has ensured access to classes for children living at the Pyli Reception and Identification Centre (RIC)