And all this “commotion” is done for 10 people! Of the impressive and somewhat frightening numbers leaked by the Germans who want to return to Greece, the first assessment by the Greek authorities showed that 500 people partially met the conditions, with the second and final assessment giving the green light for 10 people.
Despite Scholz’s rhetoric, the German authorities have neither the registration centers nor the mechanisms needed to track down these 10 people, resulting in their pending return. Apart from the funny thing, it seems that they are also faced with the difficulties of implementing refunds, with the difference that they are talking to a country that has standardized procedures and of course is included in the same European legislation.
“However, there are not 15,000 returns in the basket as was written and heard in the previous days or even more. The prime minister has cut it off, we repeated it in the talks with the Germans, there are no mass returns,” as the Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Mr. Nikos Panagiotopoulos, said in an interview with real.
And he added that “the European pact on asylum and immigration, as well as the European Schengen directives, allow, on a case-by-case basis and in a very limited number, returns: Those who have not been recognized as refugees, i.e. they have crossed into European territory even from Greece , have thus filed for asylum, have moved illegally through the various circles of traffickers, friends, acquaintances. The unrecognized are therefore expected to return under Dublin III […] but these are not applied in practice. And why does it not apply in practice? Because they are not easily found where they are, in other words they go to Germany, they disappear among relatives, friends, national groups. And also, even when they are found, the German courts rely on some past decisions that say that because the living conditions in Greece have nothing to do with those in Germany […] it is not in the interest of these people to return.”
Closed doors from Turkey
For Greece, the procedures of returns to Turkey and third countries are a much more complex issue, with closed doors in negotiations and implementation. For this reason, the approximately 4,000 returns that have been made in 2024 to various countries were also the result of voluntary returns. Although the number is incommensurate with the arrivals that occurred during the same period of time, those who try to implement them report to “ET.” that they are completed with enormous efforts. Around 700 people left Greece in July – a big difference from Germany’s 10.
In more detail, in July the following took place:
-199 forced deportations and returns of third country nationals based on EU agreements. and bilateral agreements between Greece and the host countries of these people.
-249 voluntary departures through the International Organization for Migration.
-54 voluntary departures of immigrants from our country to their countries of origin.
-47 transfers to EU member states under the Dublin Regulation.
-While 155 applicants for international protection left for France as part of voluntary relocation programs.
In July, returns under the EU-Turkey joint statement did not take place, as in any of the previous months. The last returns were in March 2020 due to the Covid epidemic and since then Turkey has stopped accepting. The Greek authorities have asked Turkey to reopen the passages and to continue the returns, but the request remains unanswered.
There are currently 28 immigrant removal centers operating in Turkey, which are partially financed by the European Union. These removal centers, along with stepped-up ID checks by police in urban areas, are signs of Turkey’s tougher stance on immigration, while increasing deportations of irregular migrants and “voluntary returns” » for the Syrian refugees.
From June 2023 to June 2024, Turkey deported 141,187 migrants, up from around 120,000 it had deported in 2022. In the same period, more than 100,000 Syrians were repatriated through voluntary returns, bringing the total number of Syrians to around 660,000. who have been repatriated since 2016, according to the leadership of the Turkish Interior Ministry. Many of the deportations and voluntary returns take place by bus, from the border crossings in Kilis, south of Gaziantep.
Returns – departures, January-July 2024
1. The data comes from the Ministry of Citizen Protection and concerns the flows to the islands of the Eastern Aegean and the Evros. The other islands include the other islands of the NE. of the Aegean (Lemnos, Ikaria, Fourni, Oinousses, Psara, Agios Eustratios and the islets and rocky islets dependent on them) and the other islands of the Dodecanese (Rhodes, Megisti, Symi, Karpathos, Tilos, Patmos, Kalymnos, Farmakonissi, Rho, Halki, Pserimos, Agathonisi, Nimos and the islets and rocky islets dependent on them).
2. The data may show a slight deviation in relation to the publications of previous months as a complete processing was carried out.
3. The data has been revised as it has been fully processed.
4. In table 3, which concerns the residents of the islands, are included, in addition to the residents of the KYT, the structures that operate under the scheme of the Ministry of Immigration and Asylum and the structures of the ESTIA program, and the residents of the other structures, in the Management Areas of EL.AS as well as in the accommodation structures for Unaccompanied Minors of EKKA. In tables 4, 5, 6, which concern those residing on islands and inland, only those residing in KYT, in all the structures operating under the scheme of the Ministry of Immigration and Asylum and in the structures of the ESTIA Program are included.
5. The data comes from the IOM.
6. The age group has been calculated based on the date of registration.
7. The percentages refer to nationalities for which at least 75 substantive and inadmissible decisions in the first degree have been issued within the reference period.
8. The percentages refer to nationalities for which at least 35 decisions of substance and inadmissibility in the second degree have been issued within the interval.
INCREASED FLOWS
Eincreased patrols and completion of the fence
In the seven months of 2024, immigrant arrivals increased by 100% on the Greek islands -23,200 arrivals in 2024, compared to 11,600 in 2023- and proportionally this also brings with it the increase in asylum seekers residing in the country as a whole and mainly on the islands.
In July 2024, approximately 6,000 people lived on the Aegean islands and a total of 17,000 in all the structures of the country. A year ago, there were about 5,300 immigrants living on the islands and a total of about 15,900 in the country. The great pressure on the flows has also brought new operational plans of the Hellenic Coast Guard-Limenikou with increased surveillance of land and sea borders, with the work on the extension of the Evros fence just 1 kilometer away to complete the new 35 kilometer section. In total, a 75 km long fence has been built, which starts from Kastanies and ends in Ferres.
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