Financial Times
December 20, 2010
Concern over the fate of asylum seekers in Greece has prompted several European Union countries to suspend co-operation with it on migration issues, exposing cracks in the bloc’s wider border-free travel arrangements.
For several months, Greece has faced an unprecedented influx of refugees coming from Asia and Africa via Turkey, as migrants have found a weak link into the EU.
The crisis prompted a rare humanitarian crisis within the EU, which was partly relieved when the European Commission, the EU’s executive, agreed to co-ordinate emergency border patrols in October, the first time it made such an intervention.
More
No comments:
Post a Comment