Human migration

The Interior Ministry's Directorate of Migration Management has denied the videos circulating on social media allegedly showing groups of illegal immigrants waiting at the Turkish borders and their easy entry into the country.

Slovenia is hosting the 55th PEN International Writers' Meeting in Bled this week. Inspired by John Lennon's Imagine, participants will discuss what kind of social order they think would promote peace. They will also delve into literature's relationship with the truth.

Serbia has frozen plans to issue passports to Russians and other foreign nationals who have lived in the country for just one year after the EU warned it could end visa-free travel to the Balkan country, writes the "Financial Times".

Americans are snapping up homes in Greece, lured by the lower cost of healthcare, life by the sea, and the promise of a five-year residence permit. But critics say the country's Golden Visa scheme has also opened a door to money laundering and driven up real estate prices for ordinary Greeks.

It is no secret that Europe has been struggling to come to an agreement on a pan-European migration policy since the 2015 migration "crisis." Public and political sentiments on the topic have swung from the left to the right over the years, resulting in the latest, trimmed-down New Pact on Migration and Asylum proposal that is currently being debated in Brussels.

A revised set of criteria on the expedited process for granting immigration permits to third-country nationals who invest in Cyprus come into effect on Tuesday, the island's Interior Ministry has announced.

American citizens are increasingly turning to Greece to secure a Golden Visa, thereby turning this country into the third most popular in terms of applications for residence permits by US property investors, according to research by Astons.

Investors from countries outside the EU will have three more months to secure deals to acquire properties at the current lower price limit of 250,000 euros, thereby securing the coveted residence permit (Golden Visa), but also the property of their choice in terms of location, before the minimum cost rises to €500,000.

The Albanian and British authorities said on Tuesday in a joint statement that since December last year, 1,000 Albanian nationals have been returned to their home country - "a combination of failed asylum seekers, foreign national offenders and voluntary returns".

30 illegal immigrants from Afghanistan were caught at the border near Silistra, announced the Appellate Prosecutor's Office - Varna announced.

A man from the village of Ruen, Burgas, was charged with criminal responsibility for helping foreigners cross the country in collaboration with two other men.