31.07.2016, The National Herald

Greek Islands Ask Help Dealing With Refugees Overflow

In recent days, more than 1,000 migrants landed on the five so-called hot spots: Lesbos, Chios, Kos, Samos and Leros since the EU-Turkey-deal attempt. Those islands are now trying to deal with 9,313 refugees in camps. In a letter to Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas, the Governor of the northern Aegean region, Christiana Kalogirou, asked for immediate steps. “We are seeing a constant and apparently increasing flow of migrants and refugees toward the islands of the northern Aegean,” she wrote, noting that the maximum capacity of state reception centers has been exceeded on all the islands. read more

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