Imploring officials of the European Union to look at the situation themselves, he said: “Why can’t people leave here? At refugee camps on the Greek mainland, and especially near the northern border, migrants continued to grapple with living outside under heavy snowfall. You can’t stockpile human beings.”A year after the European Union sealed its borders to large numbers of newcomers, Greece remains Europe’s holding pen for nearly 60,000 men, women and children. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyBut a bigger problem is the extremely slow processing of asylum applications for those in the Greek camps. That is partly because the European Union has sent just a fraction of the assistance it pledged to Greece last year to help clear the backlog.

Source: New York Times January 11, 2017 21:25 UTC