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| Migrant transfers from overcrowded Greek camps outnumbered by new arrivals | |
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| Greece’s eastern islands are struggling to cope with a surge in arrivals of migrants and asylum-seekers that has undermined efforts to ease overcrowding at refugee camps. | Greece’s eastern islands are struggling to cope with a surge in arrivals of migrants and asylum-seekers that has undermined efforts to ease overcrowding at refugee camps. |
| The number of people reaching Lesbos, Samos, and other Greek islands in the eastern Aegean Sea is the highest since the EU reached a €6-billion agreement in 2016 to prevent migrants from leaving the coast of Turkey and heading to the EU, AP said. | |
| Dinghies carrying migrants from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere are reaching the islands despite enhanced patrols by the coast guard, supported by the Greek military, in recent weeks. | Dinghies carrying migrants from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere are reaching the islands despite enhanced patrols by the coast guard, supported by the Greek military, in recent weeks. |
| The government promised to accelerate transfers to the mainland and expand the network of camps there, but those transfers have so far been outnumbered by new arrivals on the islands. | The government promised to accelerate transfers to the mainland and expand the network of camps there, but those transfers have so far been outnumbered by new arrivals on the islands. |