The EU "wants" refugee reception center in Athens
Transferring the first reception centers for refugees (Hotspots) from Lesvos and Kos into a great center to be created in the former Olympic site in Athens and operates under the management agency FRONTEX and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees wishes European Commission, according to the German magazine «Der Spiegel».
The report, however, noted that the Greek Government has already expressed its reservations.
Merkel wants to mini summit in Brussels Sunday to achieve a substantial improvement of the work of Hotspots. Chancellor seeks the distribution of refugees within EU be done directly from these preliminary reception centers. Among other things designed to share information leaflets in Arabic so that refugees gain confidence in the EU mechanism, reports Spiegel.
At the same time notes that Greece is indeed already the coordinate registration of refugees and fingerprinting, but most of the 4,000 refugees arriving daily in the Greek islands not applying for asylum - out of fear or do you deported or whether sent to a European country which do not want to live.
The main problem, however, according to the magazine, is that the Greek islands can not cope with the influx of refugees and why the European Commission wants to postpone the initial reception of refugees from overburdened municipalities Lesvos and Kos to the mainland.
So there should be a former Olympic site in Athens, a huge center for 40-50,000 people, which will be managed by officials of FRONTEX, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
Transferring the first reception centers for refugees (Hotspots) from Lesvos and Kos into a great center to be created in the former Olympic site in Athens and operates under the management agency FRONTEX and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees wishes European Commission, according to the German magazine «Der Spiegel».
The report, however, noted that the Greek Government has already expressed its reservations.
Merkel wants to mini summit in Brussels Sunday to achieve a substantial improvement of the work of Hotspots. Chancellor seeks the distribution of refugees within EU be done directly from these preliminary reception centers. Among other things designed to share information leaflets in Arabic so that refugees gain confidence in the EU mechanism, reports Spiegel.
At the same time notes that Greece is indeed already the coordinate registration of refugees and fingerprinting, but most of the 4,000 refugees arriving daily in the Greek islands not applying for asylum - out of fear or do you deported or whether sent to a European country which do not want to live.
The main problem, however, according to the magazine, is that the Greek islands can not cope with the influx of refugees and why the European Commission wants to postpone the initial reception of refugees from overburdened municipalities Lesvos and Kos to the mainland.
So there should be a former Olympic site in Athens, a huge center for 40-50,000 people, which will be managed by officials of FRONTEX, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
