[Refugees and migrants holding their registration papers wait to board a bus that will transfer them from a makeshift camp at the port of Piraeus to a newly built relocation centre in the port town of Skaramagkas, in western Athens]Greece has asked the European Union to speed up the relocation to other member states of migrants and refugees in the country under a plan agreed last year to ease pressure on frontline countries Greece and Italy. Under the plan, 160,000 migrants could be relocated over two years, but so far just under 4,000 people have been relocated from Greece and Italy to other European countries. "At the moment we have 7,000 people ready to be relocated and no answers from the European Union member states which would be obliged to accept them," Greek Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas told journalists. "Therefore, we ask for this gap to be covered." Mouzalas said he and fellow ministers would tour member states next month to discuss the issue.
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