EU-IOM:migration accord on Tunisia,Libya and Egypt
The IOM will take charge of the enactment of the programme in Tunisia and Egypt.
Further south at the western port of Patras, a total of three non-EU nationals were arrested during attempts to board Italy-bound ferry boats with forged travel documents. In one instance, the 62-year-old driver of a truck and his 62-year-old companion were also arrested for stowing away one of the migrant inside the tractor trailer. Finally, in the extreme northwest port of Igoumenitsa, one foreign national was arrested along with the driver and co-driver of an Italy-bound lorry early Sunday morning, after authorities discovered that the former possessed and displayed forged travel documents with the purpose of illegally exiting Greece and entering Italy.
Tuesday, 27 December 2011
(ANSAmed) - TUNIS, DECEMBER 27 - The European Union (EU) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), have signed a cooperation accord in Tunis on the management of migratory flows following the events in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. The accord entails the EU's setting up a fund of 9.9 million euros to finance a three-year programme which will start on January 1.
Migration: Rescue, arrests of Italy-bound illegals in Greece
(ANSAmed) - ATHENS, DECEMBER 27 - Seventeen people, identified as would-be illegal migrants and an alleged migrant smuggler, were rescued from a stalled speedboat off the isle of Erikoussa, north of the Ionian island of Corfu, on Saturday by the coast guard, as reported by ANA news agency. Authorities were notified that the vessel was drifting in the sea region, with a patrol boat dispatched to the scene. The boat had been reported stolen from a Corfu marina. The alleged migrant smuggler was arrested and will be led before a local prosecutor, while the illegals were transferred to a border patrol unit.
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