Greece could extend a suspension on examining asylum applications passed by parliament last month if migrant flows from Libya ...

The number of migrants arriving on Greece's island of Crete has dropped since the government paused asylum hearings for three ...

Our goal is to accelerate returns, even before the asylum process is completed,” stated the Minister of Migration ...

"We’ve made it clear that for the next 3 months we will not be accepting asylum applications," said the Minister for ...

Thanos Plevris, Greece’s recently appointed migration minister, has called the influx of refugees across the Mediterranean an “invasion.” Several lawmakers from the ruling New Democracy party have ...

By 2024, irregular migrant arrivals to the European Union had fallen to around 240,000, less than a quarter of 2015 levels, ...

Thanos Plevris, 48, is succeeding Makis Voridis, 60, who resigned Friday to defend himself against allegations that he was possibly involved in an organized fraud scheme to provide farm subsidies ...

Thanos Plevris, 44, who heads up the Greek Covid response, reiterated his 'absolute respect' for Holocaust victims and his opposition to antisemitism He had faced a public backlash for comments ...

“Thanos Plevris was my protégé,” he stressed. When Plevris’s father’s Nazi propaganda was too much in the public spotlight, the son was promoted instead and first entered parliament in 2007.

Thanos Plevris, who was named to his post as part of a government reshuffle, said Wednesday in a statement that he did not mean to offend anyone with his 2009 defense.

Thanos Plevris, 48, is succeeding Makis Voridis, 60, who resigned Friday to defend himself against allegations that he was possibly involved in an organized fraud scheme to provide farm subsidies ...