According to the AP, the Nationalist Party of Greece is prohibited from running in this year’s elections, which are scheduled to take place in April. The anti-immigration party is getting close to the three percent barrier needed to secure representation in parliament, according to recent surveys. The reason for the prohibition is because the party’s founder, Ilias Kasidiaris, is now serving... 

An official said on Saturday that Greek authorities stopped 260,000 migrants from entering the country illegally from Turkey in 2017. Takis Theodorikakos, Greece’s Minister for Citizens’ Protection, accompanied ambassadors from the European Union and the United Kingdom to the country’s border wall with Turkey, which is now being expanded. In order to lessen the burden placed on those... 

Some observers say Turkish Recep Erdogan is once again using migrants as a political weapon against Greece as at least 40,000 people so far this year have been been turned away at the border. The Greek Coast Guard has intercepted around 40,000 migrants attempting to enter the country from Turkey via the Aegean Sea. “In the first four months of 2022, about 40,000 migrants tried to enter the country...