Graphics from the UNHCR showing the capacity and occupancy rates at sites for refugees across Greece (top) and the number of people known to have died or gone missing this year, as of August 31, in comparison to 2015
According to the latest figures from the UNHCR, there are now 59,569 refugees and migrants on Greek territory.
The figures also show the following numbers of people on the islands versus the capacity of the facilities available.
Lesbos: 5,388 people versus facilities with a capacity for 3,500.
Chios: 3,316 people versus facilities with a capacity for 1,100.
Samos: 1,351 people versus facilities with a capacity for 850.
Ekathimerini, a daily Greek newspaper which is sold with the International Herald Tribune, in Greece reports:
A year after the European Union launched its refugee sharing plan so member countries could help overwhelmed Greece and Italy less than five percent of the migrants have been relocated.
European Commission figures show that only 4,473 asylum seekers were relocated as of September 1.
The plan is a cornerstone of the EU’s strategy to deal with more than one million people who entered Europe last year in search of sanctuary or jobs. It commits countries to relocate 160,000 refugees from Greece, Italy or any other member state deemed unable to cope by September 2017.
EU Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud said Monday that, despite the slow pace, “what we are doing is not insignificant.”
Small percentage of Europe’s migrants relocated (Ekathimerini)
Hi Broadsheet,
It may just be my browser but that link at the bottom isn’t working.
P.S. Thanks for highlighting this subject.
Apologies, Rory. That’s fixed now. Thank you.
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jaysus, after a day like today you bring in the refugees??
To be honest though, I reckon everyone is a bit knackered this evening, what with all the arguments and the heat and all that. Let’s all agree to disagree.
Send your queries to George Soros he sent them all to their death
Ah fupp off with your illegal migrant stories. We don’t want or need them, only people who think their important cause they have a few twitter followers want them here. They know the risk of getting into an unstable boat, so if they are stupid enough to leave an already safe country and cross the water, then they are too stupid to allow into civilised societies.
Now Ben, not sure where you’re going with ‘already safe country’. Have been working on a camp in Greece the last month and things aren’t the May West in Syria to be fair. Sound lad I was working with told me how when he tried to cross the border in a car Assad troops opened up a machine gun on his car putting 5 bullets in his leg and killing his 3 mates. The only reason a dad thinks its a good idea to put his kid in a rubber dinghy on the sea is that he thinks its safer than the land. The migrant issue is complex granted, but ignorant attitudes like yours here don’t really help anybody…