GREECE: Refugee protests all year long
In February, around 2,000 migrants and refugees, including young children, marched out of the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos and started walking towards the island’s main town, Mytilene, to protest against the conditions in the camp and delays in the processing of asylum applications. The police blocked them on the road, so some staged a sit-in while others tried to go around police lines; they were repelled with teargas and flash grenades and beaten. Forty people were arrested.
The main question is how we are going to implement a concise, complete and logical integration policy on the basis of a reasonable migration and refugee policy. We need a change in the narrative and in the way in which politicians deal with migration, and not only in Greece, but also in Europe and on a global scale.
Lefteris Papagiannakis
