EU-GREECE: Greeks build fence to ward off asylum seekers
01 February 2012
EU-GREECE:
Greeks build fence to ward off asylum seekers (euobserver, link): "
European Commission on Tuesday (7 February) said the fence is a national issue. But it also poured scorn on the project. "Fences and walls are short-term solutions to measures that do not solve the problem. The EU is not and will not co-finance this fence ... It is pointless," a spokesman for home affairs commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told press in Brussels"