Dimitris Avramopoulos

Officials from Greece's new conservative government have vowed to speed up the asylum process for migrants and refugees and restart deportations to neighboring Turkey despite renewed tension between the two NATO members.

Following talks with European Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos on Monday, Prime Minister Kyriakos on Monday had another meeting with key cabinet officials whom he asked to focus on six key areas in curbing the impact of migration inflows.

Following talks with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday, European Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos described Greece as a pillar of stability in the region and expressed his conviction that the EU would continue to support it.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is to receive European Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos at 10 a.m. on Monday at the Maximos Mansion.

The premier is to chair a meeting from 10.30 a.m. on migrant influxes and migration policy with Avramopoulos, Citizens' Protection Minister Michalis Chrysochoidis and the alternate minister for migration policy, Giorgos Koumoutsakos.

The EU's Migration and Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos has called for "provisional agreements" between the bloc's member states on dealing with migrants rescued at sea until reform of Dublin regulations has been completed.

Just two days before he will be deposed regarding his charges of a botched handling of the Novartis kickbacks case by his colleagues and of governmental meddling in the case, Deputy Supreme Court Prosecutor Ioannis Angelis has in a 10-page report requested that lawsuits filed by former PM Antonis Samaras, former Pasok leader Evangelos Venizelos, and European Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos (

Romania's Interior Minister Carmen Dan said on Thursday migration challenges cannot be tackled by a single country, as the recent past has indicated, opening an EU-Africa conference on migration in Brussels.

European Commissioner for Migration Dimitris Avramopoulos will be traveling to Turkey on Monday to meet with high-ranking officials.

Teams of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, or Frontex, are joining Albania's police to patrol its land and sea borders for migrants and crime.

European Union Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos and Frontex head Fabrice Leggeri were in Tirana on Tuesday to launch "the first ever joint operation on the territory of a neighboring non-EU country."

The European Parliament adopted the Commission's proposal to reinforce the European Border and Coast Guard Agency with a standing corps of 10,000 border guards by 2027.