Greece and the enitire EU responded effectively when migrants and refugees in Evros were exploited by Ankara as a tool of blackmail to achieve objectives that were anything but humanitarian.
The PM and his government aim to internationalise the issue by stressing that it is a European problem but expectations that other EU member-states will cooperate are merely pious wishes.
UNHCR has been appealing to the Greek government to use emergency measures to expedite its plans to transfer a greater number of asylum-seekers to appropriate accommodation on the mainland. More than 36,000 asylum seekers now in reception centres designed for 5,400 people, according to the UNHCR spokesman.
The success of the refugee burden-sharing plan will depend on the readiness of the Greek government to manage the crisis and on the efficiency of competent authorities.
The effort to internationalise an issue that by its very nature is supranational and yet is treated as a domestic problem is a step in the right direction.
Asselborn proposed in an interview with Der Spiegel the transfer of 4,000 child migrants from Greece to all EU countries.
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