Greece Issues - 2022

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Disputes - international

Greece and Turkey continue discussions to resolve their complex maritime, air, territorial, and boundary disputes in the Aegean Sea; the mass migration of unemployed Albanians still remains a problem for developed countries, chiefly Greece and Italy

Refugees and internally displaced persons

refugees (country of origin): 38,496 (Syria), 25,188 (Afghanistan), 12,657 (Iraq), 5,002 (West Bank and Gaza) (mid-year 2021); 20,955 (Ukraine) (as of 6 December 2022)

stateless persons: 5,552 (mid-year 2021)

note: 1,229,347 estimated refugee and migrant arrivals (January 2015-December 2022); as of the end of February 2022, Greece hosted an estimated 161,419 refugees and asylum seekers

Illicit drugs

a gateway to Europe for traffickers smuggling cannabis products and heroin from the Middle East and Southwest Asia to the West and precursor chemicals to the East; some South American cocaine transits or is consumed in Greece; money laundering related to drug trafficking and organized crime

NOTE: The information regarding Greece on this page is re-published from the 2022 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Greece 2022 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Greece 2022 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.