Greece Drafts Tougher Law for Rejected Asylum Seekers, PM Says ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece has prepared legislation that will introduce tougher penalties for rejected asylum seekers and speed up ...

Greece plans to implement stricter regulations on rejected asylum seekers with the intention of accelerating their deportation. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis emphasizes harsher penalties and ...

Greece’s new bill criminalises illegal stay, expands detention, and ends legalisation paths — signalling a major shift in EU ...

Greece is ending mass migrant legalization programs and introducing stricter detention measures for asylum seekers with rejected claims. Migration Minister Makis Voridis announced Friday that ...

The Minister of Migration and Asylum, Makis Voridis, is set to introduce a new anti-immigration bill that marks a sharp turn ...

the Greek Asylum Service could, at a bare minimum, decide to grant subsidiary protection to Syrians who do not qualify for refugee status, in application of the law. Legal Centre Lesvos is a non ...

New changes in immigration laws, which have to be approved by parliament, will mainly affect people with so-called subsidiary ...

He wanted to claim asylum. But despite trying “about ... However, since 2020, a succession of amendments to Greek law and changes in practice have seen the detention of third-country nationals ...

The top rights officer at Europe’s border agency said in a confidential report that it should stop working with Greece because ... human rights or European asylum law, but the leaders demanded ...

ATHENS - Greece has prepared ... if their asylum application is being rejected," Mitsotakis told a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, which discussed a new draft law on illegal migration.