Greece predicts that in 2020, up to 100,000 refugees will arrive on the islands from Turkey, which will further aggravate the situation with already crowded migrant camps.
“The crisis is serious now,” Funk Manos Logotetis told reporters on a government commission.
Over the past six months, 45,000 refugees have arrived in Greece, prompting the government’s commissariat to state that the situation is “clearly more critical” for Greece than the 2015 migrant crisis, in the midst of an influx of people fleeing the Syrian civil war.
Currently, according to the Greek government, more than 41,000 people are expected in notorious camps on islands such as Moria on Lesbos or Vathi on Samos, the highest figure since the EU-Turkey refugee pact came into force in 2016 .