Dimitris Avramopoulos

The European Union is "concerned" by its existing asylum regulations and is looking at ways to amend them with large numbers of migrants fleeing conflict crossing the Mediterranean, the bloc's top immigration official said April 7.

Greece needs a long-term "national strategy" to deal with the influx of undocumented migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Asia, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday following a meeting in Athens with European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with EU Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos on Tuesday morning, with both men  agreeing that there is an urgent need to review the controversial Dublin III regulation.

EU Commissioner of Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos arrived in Malta on Thursday, where he expressed the Union’s solidarity to the island nation in its efforts to deal with a growing tide of illegal migrants attempting to reach its territory.

Bulgaria will receive EUR 10 M in EU funding to support its asylum, migration and integration policies over the period 2014-2020.

VIENNA - Ten countries of central and southeastern Europe and the EU agreed on Monday in Vienna to strengthen cooperation in the fight against Jihadism and to ensure better training for border authorities.

Sixteen people have been arrested in connection with an international human-trafficking ring that allegedly earned 8 million euros from smuggling Syrian migrants from Turkey into Greece, European police organization Europol announced Tuesday in The Hague.

EU Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos may have resigned as deputy prime minister of the conservative New Democracy (ND) party but he is still keeping a watch on his party's developments. Despite his post in Brussels he believes that it is only a matter of time befoe a "government of national reconstruction" is created.

The EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Dimitris Avramopoulos, lauded the recent drop in illegal migration to EU countries.

Speaking during a visit to Kosovo on Tuesday, he said: "Detections of irregular border crossings of Kosovo citizens at the Serbian Hungarian border has dropped in the past month from 1,400 to 15 a day. This is a spectacular outcome."

A joint statement by EC VP Frans Timmermans, EU High-Representative VP Federica Mogherini, EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos, EU International Cooperation/Development Commissioner Neven Mimica, EU Employment/Social Affairs Commissioner Marianne Thyssen, EU Humanitarian Aid/Crisis Management Commissioner Christos Stylianides and EU Justice/Consumers/Gender Equality Commissioner Ver