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

Migrants in Greece with rejected asylum claims will soon be required to wear ankle monitors to speed up deportations.

Greece's Migration Minister Thanos Plevris announced on Monday (local time) the implementation of a measure that will require ...

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

Greece's government plans to introduce ankle monitors for migrants with rejected asylum claims, as part of new reforms to ...

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

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 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.

The restrictions start Saturday and target unvaccinated people, said the country’s health minister, Thanos Plevris. By Niki Kitsantonis As Greece broke another record in daily coronavirus ...

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 ...