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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Tired of waiting, Greece's migrants turn to business to survive

[A refugee shops from a tent which has been transformed into a mini-market at a makeshift camp for refugees and migrants at the Greek-Macedonian border near the village of Idomeni]Saima is one of a small but growing number of migrants eking out a living on the Greek side of the Macedonian border, where about 10,000 people have set up Europe's biggest refugee camp and are showing signs of settling in for the long term. "My parents didn't have any choice when we ran out of money a few weeks ago. At the time, huge numbers were making their way to northern Europe in the hope of gaining asylum in countries such as Germany, but border shutdowns in the Balkans stranded thousands in Greece.


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