Abstract :
Immigration and refugee flows in the Eastern Mediterranean migration path have been increased the last two decades, a fact that created the need for coordinated political reaction from the EU, which now faces new challenges because of the Covid-19 pandemic. This article analyses the new challenges Covid-19 creates by focusing on the “lesson learned” of previous pandemics and their effect on mankind and also on the necessity of a common European policy both in the fields of immigration policy and foreign policy towards the stabilization in the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly by focusing on the role of Greece and Turkey.
Keyword :
foreign policy; EU; epidemies; pandemic; coronavirus; immigration; illegal; legal; Greece; Turkey; Eastern Medditerranean; refugee; international relations; European Policies; migration; refugees