Greece´s refugee plan is inhumane and doomed to fail. The EU must step in | Apostolis Fotiadis
(The Guardian Greece)

The government wants to create massive detention centres, but this is being resisted by locals and refugees alikeSince the start of the year, Greece´s reception system for migrants has imploded. A spike of arrivals over the past few months, caused by Turkey´s police operations removing refugees and asylum seekers from its western coastal cities and sending them back to the regions where they were registered, has pushed the existing accommodation to its limits.Between September 2019 and January 2020, the Greek government transferred 14,750 people from the islands to the mainland, as 36,000 new arrivals crossed the Aegean to Greece from Turkey. While the system is unable to absorb any more people, efforts to establish additional camps in the mainland and new detention centres on the islands have met strong resistance from local communities.Lawyers in the islands are already reporting numerous violations of European and international asylum law Related: Greece´s proposed `floating wall´ shows the failure of EU migration policies | Vasileia Digidiki and Jacqueline Bhabha Continue reading...