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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Greece pledges to speed up delivery of migrant 'hotspot' centres

[A migrant carries a baby as refugees and migrants arrive aboard the passenger ferry Blue Star1 at the port of Piraeus, near Athens]By George Georgiopoulos ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will speed up completion of five migrant registration centres and two relocation camps after the EU executive chided it for neglecting its duties to Europe's passport-free Schengen zone, the prime minister's office said on Sunday. European Union interior ministers urged Athens last week to do more to control the influx of migrants, some threatening exclusion from the Schengen zone as the crisis increasingly divides bloc members. Greece was the main gateway to Europe for more than a million refugees and migrants who reached the EU last year.


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