Greek Burdens Mount as Immigrants Use Back Door to EU
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Greece, battling to keep its economy from ruin, also is struggling with an increase in the number of asylum seekers using the country as a back door to Europe.
About 90 percent of illegal immigrants in the European Union arrived through Greece, according to Warsaw-based Frontex, the bloc’s agency for border security. At least 350 people try to cross into northeastern Greece from Turkey each day, Deputy Labor Minister Anna Dalara said yesterday.