Greek barrier on border with Turkey to keep out migrants | Irish Sun

Greek barrier on border with Turkey to keep out migrants

EU Business Saturday 1st January, 2011

) - Greece on Saturday announced plans to build a barrier along its border with Turkey in a bid to stem the flow of illegal immigrants into the European Union. "The Greek public has gone beyond its limits in terms of its capacity to welcome illegal migrants. Greece cannot take it any more.... We plan to build a barrier on the land border to block unauthorised immigration," the country's immigration minister, Christos Papoutsis, told Greek news agency Ana without providing any details. It was the first time Papoutsis raised the idea of building a barrier along the country's 150-kilometre (93-mile) land border with Turkey, which has become the main route for illegal migrants to enter the European Union, with almost half of detected illegal entries. From January to the beginning of Novembe...

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