The UN refugee agency says more than 900,000 refugees and migrants have reached the European Union since January. In another incident six chi…
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Austrian soldiers are building a fence to improve the procedure for arriving refugees at the border between Slovenian and Austria in Spielfeld, Austria, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015.
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About 400,000 refugees have illegally entered Greece via Turkey in 2015, but more than 3,000 of them, mostly Syrians, have lost their lives in boat accidents across the Aegean.
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“Greece can not become a warehouse of souls for people who don’t want to stay here”, Tsipras said.
Some 60 percent said they were Syrians.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in its September report that the number of daily arrivals in Greece through Turkey, continue to be significantly high as based on IOM estimations approximately 4,500 migrants are crossing into Greece on a daily basis.
At least six Afghan children have drowned after a rubber dinghy carrying asylum seekers sank off Turkey’s Aegean coast.
The German government plans to issue a new identity document to migrants arriving in the country amid efforts to improve management of the influx.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum.
Germany’s interior minister says that 965,000 people were registered as asylum-seekers in the country from January through the end of November.
Meanwhile police began to dismantle migrant tents which had been blocking a rail line for the past month, leading to losses for the rail operator and Greek exporters. The services are now expected to restart soon.
The police operation, which Greek authorities heralded last week, was carried out relatively smoothly following weeks of tensions along the border.
Police said 10 migrants were detained for resisting a transfer to the buses.
Macedonia, like Serbia and Croatia, has been stopping migrants who aren’t from Syria, Afghanistan or Iraq from crossing its territory on their way to Northern Europe. Many others do not survive the journey.
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The 26 survivors told Greek authorities that there were more than 50 people on board the boat when they started their trip from Turkey’s coasts. Most of the young people also suffered personal losses, as one in five is still searching for a family member missing in Syria.
