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Nearly 80% less migrants were seized by the Ministry of Interior in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year, according to statistics. Reports SEGA. 

The Serbian government will soon discuss the Russian-Serbian Humanitarian Center (RSHC) and the status of its staff.

"It's really no longer either normal, nor do I understand why they (the US) are opposed to giving immunity to Russian humanitarian workers in the Nis Center," First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic has told Vecernje Novosti.

Greece has submitted a request, the second in the last four months, to be exempt from the obligation of enforcing systematic checks on its borders, Kathimerini understands.

A Coast Guard and a Frontex vessel early on Saturday rescued 110 undocumented migrants after the smuggling boat on which they were traveling ran into problems off the coast of Methoni, in the southwestern Peloponnese.

The rescue vessels were dispatched after one of the migrants issued a distress signal as the boat had suffered engine failure.

The Bulgarian government's Airbus A319 travelled to Colombo, Sri Lanka carrying 32 migrants who did not have right of residence in any country of the European Union. From the European agency Frontex for border and coast security explained that for the operation which was coordinated by Bulgaria were paid almost 75 thousand euros.  

The influx of migrants into Greece, Spain and Italy has increased in recent weeks by between 30 and 70 percent, a representative of the European Union's border monitoring agency Frontex has told journalists from Kathimerini and other newspapers at a briefing in Madrid.

Greek coast guard are on alert after a boat carrying 120 illegal immigrants was detected off Souda bay in Crete.

According to the reports, the 120 immigrants were destined for Italy, but the vessels was immobilised due to mechanical failure.

The Greek coast guard along with a Frontex crew arrived in the area in order to tow the boat to Souda bay.

A video surfaced two days ago by AegeanHawk, that shows the suspiciously lousy job done by FRONTEX (Netherland Coast Guard), NATO (Albanian CG) and -unsurprisingly- the Turkish CG in intercepting a…low-speed refugee rubber boat in the Aegean Sea, Greece!

Greek coast guard authorities detained a 19-year-old foreign human trafficker who reportedly transported 28 refugees to the island of Ros in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The 29 refugees (including the trafficker) were spotted on the island by a FRONTEX vessel which transported them to the island of Kastellorizo.

The EU border agency Frontex said one of its maritime patrols rescued 28 migrants on Wednesday near the eastern Greek islet of Ro.

Frontex officials also arrested a 19-year-old man believed to be the migrants' trafficker.

The migrants have been transferred to the nearby island of Kastellorizo.