EU pledges $800m to Greece for refugee, migrant surge

The EU has promised $800m to Greece to deal with a refugee and migrant surge from Turkey. That came after Turkey said it would allow hundreds of thousands of people to pass through.
Greece and Bulgaria have stepped up security on their side of the land border with Turkey.
The Greek coastguard is now actively repelling boats trying to get to its islands across the Eastern Mediterranean.
Ankara's decision to open the borders breaches an agreement it made with the EU in 2016 to resettle refugees and stop them from crossing into Europe
Turkey now hosts more than four million refugees and says it cannot cope with any more people fleeing the latest violence in Idlib.
Following the opening of the Turkish side of the border, which came hours after the killing of dozens of Turkish soldiers in Syrian government air raids, footage showing refugees trying to cross sea and land into neighbouring Greece has been widely shared.

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[barakah]

let the engineers and doctors go to muslim countries

[ivorybilled]

Stay strong Greece! Don't let them cross. Angela Merkle can take a few into her house if she's not a hypocrite.

[navou]

send them all to Qatar, they have resources to feed these African, Pakistani, afghan, Muslim young guys

[profiler]

We don't need to help these people! We have to help Greece defending Europe.

[zatso-hzrb]

As a Greek, i have to mention that we helped so many refugees in compare with other European countries and its our Honour!RIGHT NOW Turkey is making a hybrid Warfare to Greece..Erdogan paid for their arrivals to our boarders...The Turkish government gave to those “refuges“ molotovs smoke grenades and probably other weapons which they used against to our army on the boarders!So i am just asking those who agree with their pass..Which Refugee who is peaceful is throwing molotovs to enter on a foreign country??Turkey is a country who believes in Ottoman Empire is making wars to take land this the only thing that is doing!Its not a peaceful country which believe in Democracy!European Union has to Act Finally!

[alexisgateley]

The bulgarian-turkish land border is 270kms long, longer than the Greek-Turkish border..4 days have passed and no migrant flows have been sent towards the EU through the bulgarian-turkish borders...so is Turkey specifically and deliberately targetting only Greece?

[integragemi]

Send all of them to saudi arabia and Quatar. Sheiks win every 5 min enough money to buy a 500.000usd ferrari. They can help all of them

[MixolydianMode]

Greece is once again defending europe against invaders. Thank you greece, i love you!

[israelfajardo]

i was wondering where is the rich country of qatar, uae, saudi to help this muslim people????

[nikakiskainourgios]

Greece should help the Syrian army who fights against Erdogan and his head choppers.

[BenIsa]

Why syrians are not going to jordan, saudi and other lands where arabs live.

[pasztet]

Solidarity sure. We will defend the borders.

[homemadeprobiotics]

Hope EU will help poor Greece push the migrants back. Refugees stay in Turkey, this are economic migrants coming to EU for social benefits.

[sarathchandran]

Al Jazeera Head said all the refugees should come to Qatar....

Thank u Al Jazeera for ur

[armandodesousa]

We do not want any more economic migrants. It may.also be time to take back our Constantinopla.

[procprotoc]

European humanity, European humanity. European what? Europa is European. Middle East is not European problem. Do you understand?

[alanedwards]

And Turkey wants to join the EU?

A lot of the "refugees" are economic migrants not from

[hongbangdynasty]

smart move EU! continued to give money to help these " refugees", guess what?? they will never stop coming!!!

[airzoomhuarache]

Support for our Greeks brothers from Italy <3

[marojedlairf]

GO TO ARAB RICH NATIONS NOT EUROPE ANYMORE OKAY..??