Human migration
Germany to Return Asylum Seekers to Serbia
Thousands of the around 200,000 Serbian citizens who sought asylum in Germany potentially face demands to leave the country and return to Serbia, the Belgrade-based daily Politika reported on Friday.
About 24,000 were already urged to leave Germany this year.
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Three Syrian migrants die off Turkey's Aegean coast
Three migrants, including two children, have drowned while attempting to reach Greece in two separate incidents off Turkey?s Aegean coast, while one person is still missing.
200k Serbian citizens could be deported from Germany
An increasing number of Serbian citizens have been seeking asylum in Germany - about 90 percent of them Roma - the Belgrade-based daily Politika writes.
24,000 of these asylum seekers have already been asked to leave Germany, the report adds.
'Migrant cafe' owners in Greece's Kos broken by refugee crisis
Cafes lining the beach front on Greece's Kos that would usually be packed with holidaymakers have become the unlikely first port of call for thousands of refugees landing in the resort island.
Reuters: Bulgaria Growing Anxious as Flow of Migrants Keeps Rising
More and more migrants keep arriving in Bulgaria despite a host of measures the country has taken to stem the influx, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
The agency cites official data according to which 25 000 people have applied for refugee status over the past two years, or as many as in the previous two decades combined.
Smugglers now using jet skis to ferry irregular migrants from Turkey to Greek isles!
With the UN calculating that 50,000 migrants — legitimate refugees and illegal immigrants — entering Greece in July 2015 alone, compared with 47,000 in all of 2014, smugglers are finding new and lucrative ways of trafficking people into the crisis-plagued country — presumably a first stop until more affluent “pastures” of northern Europe are reached.
The routes immigrants and refugees use to enter Europe (Proto Thema English Infographic)
According to a recent op ed in the New York Times the immigration crisis in Greece is becoming a ‘full scale disaster’. Thousands of third world national are flooding a country trying to recover from a 6-year recession and in constant fear and uncertainty of a default. A country in such a dire economic state that it can barely provide for its own citizens.
Scuffles on Lesvos between groups of irregular migrants
More brawls were reported at the port of Lesvos (Lesbos) on Tuesday between third country nationals that landed on the island over recent days after disembarking from the opposite Turkish coast.
Nearly 21,000 migrants arrived in Greece last week: UN
Nearly 21,000 refugees and migrants arrived in crisis-hit Greece last week -- nearly half the total number in all of 2014 -- the United Nations said on August 18.
Refugee crisis in Greece reaches explosive proportions says UN
The magnitude of the refugee crisis in Greece was outlined a UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) report, according to which the number of refugees that landed on the Greek islands in one week (August 8-15) was half the total in all of 2014!