Greece: the closed door policy
Audio 19:30
View of a migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos.
September 19, 2021 © LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP
By: Joël Bronner Follow
20 mins
Since the record number of arrivals of asylum seekers in 2015 and 2016 - at the time of the so-called migration crisis - Greece has become one of the main accesses to the European continent.
Today, however, the authorities are hammering it, Greece no longer wants this status as a gateway to Europe.
Greek migration policy has also continued to harden since the summer of 2019, and the arrival in power of the conservatives.
A policy now embodied by the opening, in mid-September 2021, on the island of Samos, of a new prison-like refugee camp and the multiplication, at the same time, of refoulements of asylum seekers.
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