immigration

2012-12-10The prime minister and extremists are taking tough stand on immigration.

2011-06-27Basic economics is spurring at least a couple thousand people to go Greek.

2011-05-13ATHENS, Greece -- Extremists attacked immigrants in Athens on Thursday (May 12th) during a demonstration by about 2,000 youths protesting Tuesday's k...

2011-05-02ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey has increased its humanitarian aid to address a possible fresh wave of immigrants seeking to escape neighbouring Syria, amid...

2011-04-29NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Foreign ministers of Italy, Greece, Israel, Malta and Cyprus will gather on Friday (April 29th) in Limassol for an informal meetin...

2011-04-18BUCHAREST, Romania -- President Traian Basescu said on Sunday (April 17th) that his country is ready to accept 200 Tunisian immigrants in response to...

2011-03-29Although the number of asylum seekers fell worldwide, Serbia lodged 10,000 more claims last year than in 2009.

2011-02-22TIRANA, Albania -- Parliament adopted a law Monday (February 21st) for repatriated Albanians from Europe, excluding them from customs tax in order to...

2011-01-20WARSAW, Poland -- Greek Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas said on Wednesday (January 19th) that his government will go ahead with a planned fence al...

2011-01-20BERLIN, Germany -- Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday (January 19th) that his country will not force asylum seekers to return to...

2011-01-16ATHENS, Greece -- Police clashed with 500 extremists who were targeting a protest against a planned fence on the Greek Turkish border in Athens on Sa...

2010-12-02SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The interior ministry announced on Wednesday (December 1st) that it has busted an international human trafficking ring that was br...

2010-11-22The EU border agency Frontex is now actively helping Greece stem the flood of illegal immigrants trying to cross into the country from Turkey. SETimes correspondent Alexander Christie-Miller spoke to several young men willing to risk their lives to get here.

2010-09-15TIRANA, Albania -- Immigrants living in Greece and Italy will soon be able to apply for biometric passports in consular offices in the two countries....

2010-09-08TIRANA, Albania -- Albania is now implementing a programme to integrate repatriated illegal immigrants from EU countries, one of the criteria it must...

2010-09-05ATHENS, Greece -- Members of the Coast Guard saved 115 illegal immigrants whose ship sent an SOS signal while off the Aegean island o...

2010-08-23BUCHAREST, Romania -- Border police announced on Sunday (August 22nd) that they have caught 36 illegal immigrants from Iraq and Afghanistan in a join...

2010-08-15ANKARA, Turkey -- Police have detained 91 illegal immigrants in the provinces of Edirne and Bolu, the Anadolu news agency reported on Sunday (August...

2010-07-27LONDON, United Kingdom -- Greece should stop treating asylum seekers as criminals and should stop locking them up in jails, human rights watchdog Amn...

2010-07-22SOFIA, Bulgaria -- The interior ministry announced the arrest of 73 illegal immigrants from southern Asia, at the border with Greece on Wednesday (Ju...