🐣 🇬🇷 🚷 Along with a rising share of births to Greek mothers, (90.5%, Q1 2026) Greece is also tightening immigration controls.

New rules are driving down irregular arrivals and boosting returns.

According to news reports, Migration Minister Thanos Plevris points to the broader European shift toward stricter policies.

Migration Minister Thanos Plevris detailed the impact of the country’s new strict rules (detention for most economic migrants, 2–5 year prison alternative to voluntary return, fast-track processing).

Key results so far (according to the reports):

• Arrivals from the Egypt-Libya route fell from 3,200 in H1 2025 to 802 in H1 2026
• Returns on that route jumped from 69 to 330
• Overall returns up 40%
• Aegean arrivals down 65% in early 2026

Plevris credits the broader European shift toward tougher policies partly to the change in U.S. direction after 2024

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