Tällaisiin talkoisiin hallapaholaisen mieli? Spain announced earlier this year that it would earmark an extra €2.3 million ($3.2 million) to increase security at Ceuta and Melilla, two Spanish enclaves in Morocco. In February, Spanish police admitted using rubber bullets to shoot at African migrants trying to swim to Ceuta, and police have also pushed back migrants from a fence that surrounds Melilla, to the dismay of EU institutions and human-rights organizations. Greece erected a 10-kilometer-long wall along its northern border with Turkey to deter undocumented migrants from crossing into its territory. Dozens of refugees—mainly Syrians—have drowned on their way to Greece just in the past few weeks. Meanwhile, Bulgaria has struggled to accommodate the thousands of Syrian refugees arriving there and the situation has threatened to cause a political crisis. The government received emergency aid from the EU, but human-rights organizations describe the conditions for asylum seekers as squalid.
Posted on: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 10:43:50 +0000