All the islands will have fully developed asylum services to handle migration flows by the end of June, the Greek spokesman for the government’s refugee policy coordinating body George Kyritsis said on Wednesday. This will help decongest the islands of migrants and refugees and relieve the pressure on island hotspots, he added, talking to the Aegean station of the state broadcaster ERT.
Kyritsis said that from this week and by the end of the month, the now under-performing asylum services on the Aegean islands of Chios and Samos will be reinforced. The government’s aim was for every hotspot to examine 200 cases a day after the end of June.
The spokesman admitted that the extended stay of refugees and migrants on the island created a problem, but noted that there was no other way to handle the problem apart from speeding up the process of examining asylum applications.
(source: ana-mpa)
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