Europe must help Greece to avoid dead-end in migration issue, German minister says

Record ID: 1435203

  • Title: Europe must help Greece to avoid dead-end in migration issue, German minister says
  • Date: 4th October 2019
  • Summary: LESBOS, GREECE (SEPTEMBER 28, 2019) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF MORIA CAMP AND THE CAMP THAT HAS BEEN CREATED AROUND MORIA DUE TO OVERCROWDING, CAMPING TENTS SET UP IN THE FOREST BY MIGRANTS IN THE SAME AREA, AS SEEN FROM A HILLSIDE VARIOUS OF TWO CHILDREN STANDING BETWEEN CONTAINERS AND TENTS WHERE CLOTHING IS HANGING FROM OUTSIDE OF TENTS CLOTHES HANGING ON LINE AMONG ROWS OF TENTS VARIOUS OF WOMAN WASHING PLASTIC SHEET IN BUCKET AT A MAKESHIFT TAP MADE FROM WOOD, MEN WASHING THEIR HANDS AT TAP CHILDREN PLAYING WITH AN EMPTY PLASTIC BOTTLE ON DIRT HILL BETWEEN TENTS WOMAN HOLDING CHILD, A CHILD HOLDING AN INFANT IN HER ARMS CHILDREN PLAYING
  • Embargoed: 18th October 2019 17:34
  • Keywords: Greece migrants Germany EU Lesbos refugees
  • Location: ATHENS AND LESBOS, GREECE
  • City: ATHENS AND LESBOS, GREECE
  • Country: Greece
  • Topics: Asylum/Immigration/Refugees,Government/Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA002AZOM62V
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Germany's interior minister Horst Seehofer said on Friday (October 4) that if Europe does not help Greece, "we will end up with a haphazard migration policy that will lead us to a dead-end."
    "It is a dead end that we witnessed in 2015, it is a dead-end that we should not have to deal with," said Seehofer, after meeting Greek Citizen Protection Minister Michalis Chrisohoidis in Athens.
    Seehofer said Europe needed to do more to protect its borders and support frontline countries, which include Spain and Italy.
    Greece, the route into Europe for nearly a million refugees and migrants in 2015, is dealing with a new and steep rise in people crossing the Aegean to its islands from neighbouring Turkey after a relative three-year lull.
    The influx has piled pressure on its massively overcrowded migrant camps and prompted the new conservative government to announce a stricter policy to curb the flows, which includes tightening its borders and deporting more people.
    Moria, Europe's biggest migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, has swelled in just three years to the size of a small town of more than 12,000 asylum-seekers, four times its capacity, and has become notorious for its poor and unsafe conditions.
    (Production: Vassilis Triandafyllou, Idyli Tsakiri)
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