Quelle: Ekathimerini
byTANIA GEORGIOPOULOU
Afghans make up more than 20 percent of the migrants and asylum seekers that are arriving on Greek islands. More precisely, according to data from the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), of the 562,355 migrants who arrived in Greece between January and late October, about 120,000 came from Afghanistan.
European Union regulations say that – barring a few exceptions – Afghans are not entitled to protection and as a result they are not included in the bloc’s recently launched relocation program.
As an entry point to the EU, Greece is expected to repatriate many of these people in the coming months. Alexis Tsipras, the country’s prime minister, has repeatedly asked Brussels that Afghans be given protection, which is so far limited to people coming from Syria, Iraq and Eritrea.