UN refugee chief criticises Europe's lack of support for unaccompanied children
The United Nations senior refugee official says he is 'worried about Europe' if it 'does not feel that it has to share responsibility on children that have no homes, no families and no future'.
Front-line state Greece is feeling the strain of hosting thousands of migrants in camps and Europe must come up with a policy to ease the crisis, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi said on a visit to the country on Thursday.
On Wednesday, he visited Moria, a camp on the island of Lesbos, built for up to 3,000 people but now accommodating more than 15,000. Conditions in the huge open-air camp were 'extremely disturbing', he said.
Athens wants to move up to 20,000 people to the mainland by the end of the year, expecting the new facilities to be ready by July 2020.
Greece has repeatedly called for a cohesive policy from its European Union partners for an equitable distribution of challenges from the refugee and migration crisis.
'Europe has to get its act together,' Grandi said.
The new European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, has promised to present a proposal for a revamp of the EU's migration policies next spring.
(Source: Reuters)
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