Tuesday, August 11, 2015

INVASION OF EUROPE: Greek Government Holds Emergency Meeting Over Soaring Migrant Arrivals

Nearly 50,000 migrants arrived in Greece in July, surpassing in a single month the number of people reaching the country in all of 2014.
The Greek government held an emergency meeting Friday over the growing numbers of migrants arriving in the country as the European Union border agency Frontex said Greece has become the main point of entry for migrants and refugees into Europe.
According to fresh data released Friday by Frontex, nearly 50,000 migrants arrived in Greece in July, surpassing in a single month the number of people reaching the country in all of 2014.
Syrians and Afghans accounted for nine out of every 10 migrants detected at the Greek borders this year. In total, 130,500 migrants arrived in Greece from January until the end of July—a fivefold increase compared with the first seven months of 2014, according to Frontex.
A dinghy overcrowded with Afghan immigrants approaches 
the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing a part of the 
Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece on Wednesday. 
Photo: YIANNIS KOURTOGLOU/REUTERS
The migrants, using small rubber boats, arrive from Turkey on four Greek islands: Lesbos, Chios, Kos and Samos, the agency said.
Up until the end of June, Italy and Greece saw similar numbers of arrivals, but in July, the Greek numbers “increased dramatically,” said Frontex spokeswoman Izabella Cooper. She said it was too early to establish the reasons for the surge.
“We are facing a problem that surpasses Greece. It is an international problem and a European one,” Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in a news conference after the emergency meeting. He called for other EU states to take a greater share of the burden of dealing with the migrants.
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