Top EU official condemned for window-dressing the containment of refugees
Migrants inside a refugee camp watch the visit of EU Commissioner Ylva Johansson in the port of Vathy on the eastern Aegean island of Samos, Greece
HUMAN RIGHTS groups have condemned a top European Union official for window-dressing the bloc’s policy of containing refugees at Europe’s edges.
Today, EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson was helicoptered to the Greek islands to visit a new “migrant border reception centre” on Samos, before being taken to the squalid Kara Tepe camp on Lesbos.
Dubbed Moria II by activists and those detained there, the Kara Tepe camp was hastily built on a former military-weapons testing ground to house those made homeless when the vastly overcrowded Moria camp burnt down last summer.
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