New findings suggest Greek authorities are illegally deporting refugees across the Turkish border. As part of an international research team, DW identified and met some of the victims who were forced back.
The Greek Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development relaxed its coroanvirus restrictions to allow more foreign workers to come and help with the Greek harvest, amid fears that produce would rot in the fields. But could migrants and refugees help fill the gap?
The Greek asylum service has resumed receiving asylum applications. Residence permits held by refugees will be extended six months from their date of expiration to prevent the service from becoming overwhelmed by renewal applications.
More than 50 vulnerable migrants, including children, are flying on from Greece to the UK on Monday to join family members there. The British Guardian newspaper referred to the move as "unprecedented."
In Greece, hundreds of people who were detained and denied access to asylum under an emergency law in March remain stuck in two mainland migrant facilities. The migrants were supposed to be sent straight back to Turkey. Their fate now is uncertain.
Unaccompanied minors made up 7% of all asylum applications in 2019, according to the EU's statistics office, Eurostat. The number, however, is about 20% down from applications filed the previous year.
Greece has announced that it will be extending lockdown measures by a week. The Greek government said that the move will delay the planned removal of hundreds of migrants from congested camps.
Greece's government was accused of "neglect" and "risking migrants' lives" by the human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) over what they claim has been poor handling of the COVID-19 crisis relating to health and safety measures at refugee and migrant camps around the country.
The European Union’s smallest state, Luxembourg, is the first EU member state to deliver on its promise to transfer unaccompanied migrant children from overcrowded camps in Greece. Germany is expected to follow suit on Saturday.
On April 5, the Malakasa camp near Athens was placed in "full sanitary isolation" for 14 days, after a migrant tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Greek authorities and the UN migration agency are providing the camp’s residents with both food and hygiene products. But residents told us: "We feel like we’ve been completely abandoned."
A migrant camp north of the Greek capital Athens has been placed under quarantine after 20 asylum seekers there tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
A woman living in a Greek camp for asylum seekers has tested positive for the coronavirus after giving birth in an Athens hospital. The woman is the country's first official case of Covid-19 in a migrant camp.