The penalties for those who unlawfully cross the border are harsh. Those already arrested and prosecuted run the risk of four years in prison and € 10,000 in fines.
- Also the way it is communicated, in English so that everyone understands, the purpose of it is of course to discourage those who have thoughts of getting over here, says Christoffer Wendick in Aktuellt.
He is on the Greek side of the 20-mile-long border river Evros and testifies to a hard border guard.
- There is a lot of military patrols and we've heard helicopters flying over us.
What does the EU plan look like now?
- The short-term plan is to back up Greece, the EU's border guard down here, with supplies and personnel and what the country needs. But the hardest and toughest questions - how to get a working relationship with Turkey and how to get peace in Syria and the Idlib province - of course, these issues should be addressed in a meeting with the foreign ministers, but this is not a solution to be addressed.
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