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A woman and her baby are pictured in a tent at a migrants' makeshift camp near a bus terminal, as they wait to resume their efforts to enter Europe near Pazarkule border gate in the city of Edirne, northwest Turkey on March 8, 2020. EU members on March 4, 2020 rejected what they said is Turkey's use of desperate migrants to pressure its neighbours -- and strongly backed Greece's border crackdown. The EU has scrambled to respond to the surge of migrants at the Greek border, where authorities say some 24,000
March 8th, 2020 - 09:37 GMT

After Border Chaos Greece Agrees to Build 2 New Shelters For 100s of Asylum Seekers

Greece plans to build two new temporary camps to house hundreds of additional asylum seekers who arrived after a surge enabled by Turkey, the migration minister said on Saturday. "We want to build two closed centres in (the northern region of) Serres and the greater Athens area with 1,000 places," migration minister Notis Mitarachi told Skai TV. "We need the backing of local communities. We cannot leave all (these) people ...
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