In Europe, a different kind of crisis is unfolding. A recent BBC investigation exposed what Ta Nea describes as the “open secret” of Greece’s Evros border region: the alleged recruitment of migrants by Greek authorities as masked operatives to carry out illegal pushbacks of other asylum seekers [14].
The Greek government responded with predictable denials. But as the editorial notes, the allegations are not based solely on the BBC’s reporting — they are corroborated by a final report from Frontex, the European border and coast guard agency (report SIR 13125/2023). The tension between Greece’s official denials and accumulating institutional evidence suggests this story is far from over.
