The 35-kilometer extension of the border fence between Greece and Türkiye at Evros will be completed in the next 10 months, Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos told Skai on Sunday.
EU member-states are “close to reaching an agreement over a new Migration and Asylum Pact,” Schinas said, expressing the belief it will be ready before the current European Commission’s term ends in 2024.
In their statement on Saturday, Italy, Greece, Malta and Cyprus repeated their positions that they “cannot subscribe to the notion that countries of first entry are the only possible European landing spots for illegal immigrants.”
The four countries also condemned the operations of private charity vessels “acting in total autonomy from the competent state authorities” to save hundreds of migrants rescued at sea.
With the project Hooked, Ilias Lazaridis in collaboration with Compagnia Eleina D. examines how this lack of understanding of the existence of an alternative life condition is a major component of modern society.
Thirty million birds “stop” on the islands of Greece. About 185 million birds migrate over the country every year at such a time.
