Euro Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), Migreurop, Welcome to Europe, Youth without Borders (Jugendliche ohne Grenzen – JOG) and their afghan friends and members, who had been detained in the hell of Pagani in 2009 and before as minors and returned to Lesvos these days and Migreurop jointly wrote a press release on Lesvos Island and the newly centre opened on the Island.
The recent tragedies in Lampedusa have highlighted, once again, the prevailing indifference of the EU toward (…)

GREECE
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Throughout the 20th century, Greece was a country of emigration, counting only around 40,000 immigrants from Pakistan, the Philippines, Egypt and Morocco. From the middle of the 1980s, and particularly following the fall of communist regimes in the Balkans and Eastern Europe in 1989, Greece became a country of immigration (according to the Καθημερινή of 6/1/1991 the number of foreigners is 500,000). Since 1990, a large number of mainly Albanian migrants (who (…)