{"id":136641,"date":"2025-01-17T09:05:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T07:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/eu-migration-chief-visits-greece-says-returns-are-something-we-have-to-deliver\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T09:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T07:05:55","slug":"eu-migration-chief-visits-greece-says-returns-are-something-we-have-to-deliver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/eu-migration-chief-visits-greece-says-returns-are-something-we-have-to-deliver\/","title":{"rendered":"EU migration chief visits Greece, says returns are \u2019something we have to deliver\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136641\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Greece, a major entry point for migrants into the EU, has advocated for stricter immigration controls. The European Union&#8217;s top migration official has said that deportations are a key priority for the bloc&#8217;s executive branch as Greece grapples with a high number of people arriving illegally into the country. &#8221;The topic of returns is something we have to deliver, definitely,&#8221; EU migration commissioner Magnus Brunner told Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis during a visit to Athens.<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian conservative, who assumed the migration and internal affairs post in late 2024, stressed the importance of implementing the EU&#8217;s new Migration and Asylum Pact. The pact is a collective set of rules to manage the reception and relocation of asylum seekers and was adopted by the European Parliament last year.<\/p>\n<p>The reform, first unveiled in September 2020, aims to bring together all aspects of migration management, including the identification of asylum seekers, accelerated border procedures and the resettlement of refugees. &#8221;There are some things to do, of course, some things ahead of us. Implementing the pact is one of them,&#8221; Brunner said.<\/p>\n<p>Greece, a major entry point for migrants into the EU, has advocated for stricter immigration controls. &#8221;Greece is a country that has found itself on the forefront of the migration crisis for many, many years,&#8221; Mitsotakis said, expressing satisfaction with EU policy shifts toward external border protection and increased focus on returns. In a rescue operation on Thursday, Greek authorities responded to 36 migrants aboard a vessel spotted by a Maltese-flagged tanker 30 nautical miles (56 kilometres) southeast of the remote island of Gavdos.<\/p>\n<p>Coast guard vessels escorted the migrants to a port on the nearby island of Crete, authorities said. The commissioner&#8217;s Athens visit follows a recent European Court of Human Rights ruling that found Greece had illegally deported a Turkish national, describing pushbacks as &#8221;systematic.&#8221; Greece denies engaging in pushbacks, maintaining it implements a &#8221;strict, but fair&#8221; migration policy.<\/p>\n<p>The country recorded more than 60,000 migrants arriving illegally in 2024. It followed an increase of nearly 50% in the rate of sea arrivals over the past 18 months.Greece is seeking direct EU funding to expand its border wall along the Turkish frontier. Brunner&#8217;s agenda included meetings with Greek ministers for migration, maritime affairs and foreign affairs, before he heads to Cyprus on Friday for further discussions on migration policy.<\/p>\n<p>But the EU&#8217;s border agency Frontex said earlier this year that the number of people entering the bloc via irregular border crossings had dropped to a three-year low in 2024.Preliminary figures from Frontex show just over 239,000 irregular border crossings in 2024, the lowest figure since 2021, when migration was already reduced due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/01\/17\/eu-migration-chief-visits-greece-says-returns-are-something-we-have-to-deliver\">Euronews<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vau-viikkokatsaus\/eu-migration-chief-visits-greece-says-returns-are-something-we-have-to-deliver\/\">EU migration chief visits Greece, says returns are \u2019something we have to deliver\u2019<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17032,1104,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-136641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-eu-migration-chief","tag-greece","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}