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- 2025 UPDATE - JULY 2026 (4.39 MB)
- AIDA 2025 TEMPORARY PROTECTION (0.39 MB)
- Greece Right of Reply to the 2025 AIDA Country Report (0.55 MB)
- 2024 UPDATE - SEPTEMBER 2025 (5.51 MB)
- Greece Right of Reply to the AIDA Country Report on 2024 (0.58 MB)
- AIDA 2024 TEMPORARY PROTECTION (0.43 MB)
- 2023 UPDATE - JUNE 2024 (4.53 MB)
- Greece Right of Reply to the AIDA Country Report (0.40 MB)
- AIDA 2023 TEMPORARY PROTECTION (0.31 MB)
- 2022 UPDATE - JUNE 2023 (3.24 MB)
- AIDA 2022 TEMPORARY PROTECTION (0.23 MB)
- 2021 UPDATE: MAY 2022 (5.77 MB)
- AIDA 2021: Executive summary in Greek (0.56 MB)
- 2020 UPDATE - JUNE 2021 (3.24 MB)
- 2019 UPDATE- JUNE 2020 (2.96 MB)
- 2018 UPDATE - MARCH 2019 (2.84 MB)
- 2017 UPDATE - MARCH 2018 (3.65 MB)
- 2016 UPDATE - MARCH 2017 (2.36 MB)
- FOURTH UPDATE - NOVEMBER 2015 (1.55 MB)
- THIRD UPDATE - APRIL 2015 (1.33 MB)
- SECOND UPDATE - JULY 2014 (1.30 MB)
- FIRST UPDATE - DECEMBER 2013 (1.26 MB)
- FIRST REPORT - JUNE 2013 (1.01 MB)
The present updated report was written by Eleni Kagiou, Alexandros Konstantinou, Spyros-Vlad Oikonomou, Aggeliki Theodoropoulou, Maria Papamina, and Chara Kallinteri, members of the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR) Legal Unit. The report was edited by ECRE.
This report draws on information inter alia provided by the Directorate of the Hellenic Police and the General Secretariat for Vulnerable Persons and Institutional Protection (GSVPIP) of the Ministry on Migration and Asylum, national and international jurisprudence, reports by international, European and national human rights bodies and institutions, international and non-governmental organisations, publicly available data, media information as well as GCR’s observations from practice and information provided by the GCR Legal and Social Unit.
GCR would like to particularly thank the abovementioned authorities for the data and clarifications provided on selected issues addressed to them by GCR Legal Unit, for the purposes of the present report. GCR would also like to thank our volunteer, Konstantina Christou, for her contribution.
The 2025 update to the AIDA country report on Greece was sent to Greek authorities to grant them the opportunity to provide comments on the draft country report. Any feedback received was reviewed and, where appropriate, incorporated into the final version of this report. The comments by the General Secretariat for the Reception of Asylum Seekers, the General Secretariat for Vulnerable Persons and Institutional Protection, and the Central Directorate of Citizenship (General Secretariat for Citizenship) are also published as an annex on the AIDA website.
The information in this report is up-to-date as of 31 December 2023, unless otherwise stated.