Greece Borders

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  Nearly 2,000 More Migrants Reach Turkey-Greece Border After Gates Open

  Around 2,000 more migrants reached the Turkish border with Greece on Sunday after Turkey opened its gates to Europe saying it could no longer cope with refugees from war-torn Syria.

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  Greece Step Up Border Patrols, Speed Up Deportations To Check Migrants

  Greece is to step up border patrols, move asylum-seekers from its islands to the mainland and speed up deportations in an effort to deal with a resurgence in migrant flows from neighboring Turkey.

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  23 Arrests In Crackdown On Bulgarian Border Corruption

  Twenty-three customs officers and businessmen have been arrested in a probe into corruption at a major checkpoint on Bulgaria's border with Greece, prosecutors said on Wednesday.

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  59 Rescued From Migrant Dinghy Off Greek Island

  Greece's coast guard says it has rescued 59 migrants in an inflatable dinghy in rough weather in the Aegean Sea.

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  Greek Police Move Migrants From Macedonia Border Camp

  Greek police on Monday began moving out migrants from a makeshift camp at Polykastro on the border with Macedonia, a local police official told Agence France-Presse.

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  Migrants Seek New Routes Into Balkans After Formal Borders Sealed

  After weeks stranded at a closed border in northern Greece, migrants and refugees are seeking out new, irregular routes to get into Macedonia, clambering through forests and over hills under the cover of darkness.

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  How Europe Built Fences To Keep People Out

  In early March, Europe's migration chief Dimitris Avramopoulos squelched through a muddy refugee camp on Greece's border with Macedonia and peered through the barbed-wire topped fence that stands between tens of thousands of migrants in Greece and richer countries that lie to the north.

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  Greece To Employ Loudspeakers At Border After Rumour Chaos

  Greece said today it would make use of loudspeakers at a migrants' camp on the Macedonia frontier to dispel "irresponsible rumours" that the border is about to reopen.

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  Migrants Flood To Greek Camp After Rumours Border Will Be Forced Open

  Hopeful refugees flooded back Sunday to Greece's overwhelmed Idomeni migrant camp on the border with Macedonia, creating confusion, after rumours that the closed frontier would be forced open.

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  Greece Starts Emptying Border Camp As New Arrivals Slow

  Greece said Saturday it has begun emptying the main migrant camp on its Macedonia border, as the huge tide of refugees flooding into the country slows to a trickle following the EU-Turkey deal.

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  Refugee Protests At Border, Islands: Greece

  Refugees and migrants in Greece staged protest today at the country's border with Macedonia and on islands near the Turkish coast, with officials still unsure when an international agreement to reduce migration will take full effect.

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  Greek Migration Minister Under Fire For Saying 'Macedonia'

  As thousands of migrants languish on Greece's border with Macedonia following the closure of the Balkans route to western Europe, Athens has been gripped by another controversy -- what ministers call its neighbour to the north.

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  Macedonia Sends Over 1,000 Migrants Back To Greece

  Some 1,500 migrants who managed to cross into Macedonia, despite the border being closed to them for a week, have been sent back to Greece by Macedonian troops, officials said Tuesday.

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  Greece Steps Up Efforts To Move Migrants To Sheltered Camps

  Greece increased efforts on Saturday to move thousands of migrants near the border with Macedonia to sheltered camps, as the spread of infection became a concern with one person in a sprawling tent city diagnosed with Hepatitis A.

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  Greece Steps Up Efforts To Move Migrants To Sheltered Camps

  Greece increased efforts on Saturday to move thousands of migrants near the border with Macedonia to sheltered camps, as the spread of infection became a concern with two people in a sprawling tent city diagnosed with Hepatitis A.