International Protection in Greece. Background information for the LIBE Committee delegation to Greece 22-25 May 2017

Please note: Each EPRS Study is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.Upon request by the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE), this paper provides a general overview of the latest developments in terms of international protection and reception of third-country nationals in Greece for the purposes of the visit of a delegation of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs to Greece in May 2017.

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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: Study, May 2017: International Protection in Greece Background information for the LIBE Committee delegation to Greece 22-25 May 2017 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/STUD/2017/583145/IPOL_STU(2017)583145_EN.pdf

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