Asylum seeker

Egypt this week passed its first bill to grant asylum to migrants, which has sparked opposition from human rights advocates who fear security concerns will override migrant protection.

The bill, ratified on Tuesday by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, aims to respond to the mass arrival of refugees arriving in the country, mainly from Sudan and the Gaza Strip.

In an interview with Open, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Nikos Panagiotopoulos, spoke about the developments in the migration issue, based on the data on Syria, the Greek decision to freeze the issuing of decisions on asylum applications, and the attitude of

Debates over the asylum claims of Syrian refugees in our country and across Europe have been sparked from the first moment the fall of the Assad regime. The asylum application process is temporarily “frozen” for thousands of Syrians who are in our country, as the main argument for their asylum applications, persecution by the Assad regime, may be unfounded.

With developments in Syria being the “elephant in the room,” Greece’s Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) convened at 10:00 AM under Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Some European Union countries have doubled down on their decision to rapidly halt asylum procedures for Syrian migrants in Europe, but said that it was too early to consider sending any of the hundreds of thousands of people who have fled since 2011 back home.

Decisions on the examination of asylum applications of Syrian refugees fall within the competence of member states, Stefan de Kersmacher, the Commission spokesman responsible for migration issues, said today.

Several European countries have paused the processing of asylum applications from Syrian nationals following the dramatic fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime. Nations such as Austria, Germany, France, Greece, and the United Kingdom have either suspended asylum decisions or temporarily halted processing applications, citing the rapidly evolving political situation in Syria.

Following Germany and Austria, Greece has also suspended all processes for examining asylum applications from Syrians, following the fall of the Assad regime in Syria.

On December 3, a panel of esteemed scholars and migration experts came together at The Demos Center of the American College of Greece to discuss the potential impacts of the 2024 European Union Pact on Migration and Asylum, especially on "frontline" countries like Greece, with a focus on the challenges of asylum-seeker flows and the evolving role of EU solidarity.

Greece's Council of State has ruled that it is unconstitutional to assign judges to single-member administrative bodies.