EU needs Turkey for keeping Balkan migration route closure

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said Friday that EU needs Turkey to help maintain the shutdown of the Balkans migration route.

Syrian refugees could be sent back home to safe zones: Greek official

Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said here on Thursday that Syrian refugees could be taken back to safe areas in Syria, Austria Press Agency reported.

Diesmal auch Griechenland und EU-Vertreter eingeladen: Tusk will Balkanroute "für immer" schließen

Beim Flüchtlingsgipfel am Samstag in Wien sprach sich auch Deutschlands Kanzlerin Angela Merkel für ein Stoppen der illegalen Migration "so weit wie möglich" aus.

Grèce: une cinquantaine de migrants secourus au large du Péloponnèse

Une cinquantaine de migrants dont le bateau s'était échoué ont été secourus vendredi près de Methoni, au sud-ouest du Péloponnèse, sur fond de hausse des arrivées migratoires sur les îles égéennes proches des côtes turques, a indiqué vendredi la police portuaire grecque.

Refugees via Turkey are avoiding route through Bulgaria (Interior Minister)

Refugees exiting from the territory of Turkey are avoiding the route through Bulgaria, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Rumyana Buchvarova said on June 1.

Shipwrecks 'kill up to 700 migrants'. Survivors are being taken to the Italian ports of Taranto and Pozzallo

Up to 700 migrants are feared drowned in a series of shipwrecks off the coast of Libya in the last few days, the UN refugee agency says.

The boats sank south of Italy on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday as the migrants tried to reach Europe in unseaworthy vessels.

Greece starts evacuating migrant camp on the border with FYROM

At least 200 police started clearing Greece's squalid Idomeni camp Tuesday on the border with FYROM [*], where over 8,400 migrants are living, according to Agence France-Presse.

Migrants Are Avoiding Greece in Effort to Reach Europe

The rescue of over 800 migrants off the coast of Sicily over the past two days is emblematic of a new strategy by those desperate and determined to escape their war-torn native countries and enter Europe.

FYROM and Serbia border: Escape, stranded, waiting -- stuck refugees along Balkan route expect way out

Nedal Alsheikh Ali and his family had been stuck at a refugee transition center in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) for several days.

Accord sur les migrants: l'UE tranchera la question des visas pour les Turcs début mai

Saluant les "progrès" de la coopération avec la Turquie sur le dossier migratoire, l'UE s'est engagée mercredi à trancher début mai sur l'exemption de visas exigée par Ankara, qui fait monter la pression sur ce sujet sensible.

Boiko Borissov: Bulgaria can protect its borders – even without Nato

Observing a maritime exercise off Bourgas on April 10, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov boasted that his country’s military and border guards could alone protect its borders: “There is no need for Nato to come to protect us”.

Merkel admet que l'Allemagne "profite" de la fermeture de la route des Balkans

Angela Merkel a maintenu lundi sa politique migratoire malgré la débâcle de son parti lors d'élections régionales et la percée concomitante des populistes de l'AfD, portés par une opposition croissante à l'ouverture aux réfugiés.

Balkan route closed, no migrant enters Croatia

There was no single migrant entering Croatia on Wednesday after the Balkan migrant route was closed, Croatian Prime Minister Tihomir Oreskovic said.