Dimitris Avramopoulos

The European Commission hosts on Monday the first high-level conference on the criminal justice response to radicalisation.

The conference brings together Justice Ministers of EU member states, MEPs, government officials, Eurojust and frontline practitioners including national prosecutors and prison directors, the Commission said in a statement.

EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos will have a series of meetings with Turkey’s political leadership within the framework of European consultations with Ankara on the issue of refugees.

Avramopoulos will address an international forum on migration in Istanbul today.

A small group of Eritreans left Italy for Sweden on Oct. 9, the first contingent of asylum seekers to be relocated under a much-contested European Union scheme to ease the burden of the migration crisis on frontline countries.

The first group of asylum seekers to be transferred to another Member State departed today from Rome heading to Sweden, in the framework of the refugee relocation scheme.

Migration and Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos and Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano attended the departure of refugees.

On Friday 9 October, Migration and Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos and Luxembourg Minister for Foreign Affairs Jean Asselborn will travel to Italy accompanied by Interior Minister Angelino Alfano for a concrete demonstration of the roll out of the European Union’s comprehensive response to the refugee crisis.

European Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos urged Greece and Italy to move forward with the immediate implementation of the EU Interior Ministers’ decision for the relocation of the 120,000 refugees, arriving in Brussels Wednesday morning for the European Commission meeting.

European Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs Dimitris Avramopoulos met with the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos and caretaker Prime Minister Vassiliki Thanou, in Athens, Friday.

The Ministry of Interior informed Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos that Interior Minister Antonis Manitakis has sent all relevant documents concerning the formation of the authority that will manage EU funds for dealing with migration.

Thousands of refugees who have found a temporary shelter in Europe might not be able to finally settle down to a European country so as to start over their life. The Council of Interior Ministers of the EU did not reach a decision regarding the relocation of refugees.

Roma associations in Macedonia - home to a large community - have condemned EU plans to exclude Balkan nations from claiming asylum as part of measures to cope with the growing refugee crisis.