- Le Figaro: The European asylum agency announced Tuesday the doubling of its operations in 2020, in particular to strengthen its presence in Greece, Cyprus and Malta, where the influx of migrants exploded in 2019, 8 January 2020.
- Die Welt: EASO, the European Asylum Support Office, needs to be transformed into a full-fledged EU Asylum Agency (EUAA), 16 January 2020.
- Ta Nea: Executive Director of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) speaks to 'NEWS' ahead of her forthcoming visit to Greece, 23 January 2020.
- InfoMigrants: The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) has since been in charge of coordinating the redistribution of the migrants who arrive in Malta and Italy, 27 January 2020.
- Reuters: The EU agency for refugees, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) said on Tuesday it will double its staff to 1,000 in Greece in the coming months to help it cope with thousands of migrants and refugees stranded on five islands, 29 January 2020.
- Deutsche Welle: Meanwhile, the EU asylum office EASO also said it would double its staff in Greece to speed up the processing of asylum requests, 31 January 2020.
- Aljazeera: The European Asylum Support Office last week announced it will boost its personnel in Greece from 500 staffers to 1,500 - and assign a third of its budget to Greece, 4 February 2020.
- The UN Refugee Agency: The European Union (EU) has provided essential and continuous support to Greece through European Commission funding and its agencies such as the European Asylum Support Office, 24 February 2020.
- Politico Europe: "Today's figures highlight that we remain well below the situation of a few years ago," the EASO's Executive Director Nina Gregori said in a statement accompanying the report, adding that the EU still needs a "sustainable, fair and crisis-proof asylum system.", 26 February 2020.
- BBC: “The number of Colombian applications has more than doubled," highlights the most recent trend analysis of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), which includes figures for 2019 through November, 26 February 2020.
- New York Times: More than 714,000 people applied for asylum or some form of international protection in Europe last year, up 13% from 2018, the European Asylum Support Office, or EASO, said in its latest report on asylum trends in 2019, 27 February 2020.
- Associated Press News: Increasing numbers of people applying for asylum in the European Union are arriving from countries with visa-free travel agreements with the bloc, notably from Latin America, rather than entering without permission, the EU’s asylum agency said Wednesday, 27 February 2020.
- EU Observer: They had also announced a deployment of personnel to the EU's police agency Europol and another dealing with asylum known as the European Asylum Support Office (Easo), 5 March 2020.
- ANSA Italian News Wire: Schinas meeting with Johansson and Frontex-Easo-Europol directors, 24 March 2020.
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