Aftermath of war

The EU-Turkey deal has made a "huge impact" on the arrival of refugees via the Mediterranean to Greece, decreasing their numbers from nearly a million in 2015 to under 30,000 in 2017, U.N. migration agency IOM spokesman Joel Millman told state-run Anadolu Agency on April 18.

The US Justice Department has filed lawsuits against two Bosniaks for fraudulently obtaining refugee status and US citizenship after failing to admit their past war crimes.

Reports say more than 100 migrants and refugees arrived overnight on the Greek island of Chios.

The migrants reportedly made the crossing from Turkey to Greece in three separate boats.

An EU-Turkey deal two years ago to curb the arrival of migrants into Europe has significantly reduced the number of people arriving on the Aegean islands from Turkey.

The European Commission announced Monday new funding of 180 million euros for aid projects in Greece, including to expand the flagship Emergency Support to Integration & Accommodation (ESTIA) program.

ESTIA helps get refugees into urban accommodation and out of camps and provides them with regular cash assistance.

The government will submit at the end of April a draft bill to accelerate and simplify the asylum procedure, Migration Policy Minister Dimitris Vitsas said on Friday, as a spike in refugee arrivals in the islands of the eastern Aegean this week deteriorated overcrowding in the so-called hotspots.

The forecast for the demographic development of Bulgaria in 2015-2040 indicates similar to the current trends over the next few decades, the government press office said.

Attacks by organized groups against migrants, refugees and activists have been creeping up in Greece, the Athens-based Racist Violence Recording Network (RVRN) said on Wednesday, and it called for zero tolerance towards racist violence.

Authorities on Lesvos have been put on high alert after the arrival of some 300 refugees and migrants on eight boats at different points on the eastern Aegean island since Tuesday midnight.

The arrivals have created a headache for authorities at the Moria hotspot which is already overcrowded with 5,300 people.

More than 4,200 Syrian youth will benefit from Turkish academic programs, a joint statement by the Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) and the U.N.'s refugee agency said on March 27.

Employment in refugee centers in Bulgaria is currently 17%. Below 850 people are accommodated in all territorial units of the State Agency for Refugees, and since the beginning of the year, and 270 people have sought protection. This is what Petya Parvanova, chairman of the State Agency for Refugees, said in "The Day Begins" on BNT.