Prayer for Crete
CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity
September 29, 2025
Those who now reach the shores of Crete in small and fragile boats come because Europe offers no safe or legal way to seek asylum,
Those who now reach the shores of Crete in small and fragile boats come because Europe offers no safe or legal way to seek asylum,
On 11 March 2025, the European Commission presented a new proposal for a Return Regulation to replace the current Return Directive. Behind the euphemistic name, the proposal outlines coercive, traumatising, and rights-violating measures premised on an imperative of increasing deportation rates. Instead of focusing on protection, housing, healthcare and education, the Regulation is premised on punitive policies, detention centres, deportation and enforcement.
On 11 July, the Greek parliament approved the three-month suspension of the right to apply for asylum for people coming from North Africa. CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity is one of 109 organisations calling for this unlawful legislation to be withdrawn.
As part of its trial monitoring programme in the Aegean region, CPT Aegean Migrant Solidarity visited the island of Samos to follow several cases involving migrants accused of smuggling.
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