Europe’s migrant crisis: Is Greece still a gateway to Europe?

Almost 900,000 migrants arrived in Greece aid in 2015, nonetheless the sympathy and welcome shown by some Greeks has now largely evaporated.

The authorities is definite no longer to enable the country to be viewed as a gateway to Europe and is actively deterring fresh arrivals.

The numbers of of us coming from Turkey into Greece over land and then thru the Balkans in opposition to Western Europe remain neatly below the out of the ordinary ranges viewed five years previously, nonetheless they’ve begun to upward thrust again.

The BBC’s Lyse Doucet heard from of us that had travelled from Afghanistan and Syria, in northern and southern Greece.

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