(AFP) One year after fire ripped through the notorious Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, the authorities say they’ve tackled the critical overcrowding and brought order to the chaos.
Critics counter they achieved this through a policy of forcibly pushing back would-be refugees before they can claim asylum on Greek soil — a charge the right-leaning government elected in 2019 denies.
While Athens says the country will “never again be the gateway to Europe,” its policies highlight the deep divides within the EU over migration as fears are rising of a new wave following last [month’s] fall of Kabul to the Taliban.
The previous migration crisis in 2015 saw Moria — built just two years earlier to hold 3,000 people — inundated as a huge wave of migrants began arriving on small boats from nearby Turkey.
