LONDON: Thousands of refugees and migrants currently in Greece are at risk of becoming homeless, as an EU scheme to provide temporary shelter and cash assistance is set to end.
Aid groups and international bodies have appealed for action as up to 2,000 men, women and children in Greece face destitution as the EU-funded Filoxenia program draws to an end.
The program worked with hotels to provide shelter for refugees and migrants, but it has been drawing to its long-planned end since December.
Already many hotels have ceased hosting refugees, and in the coming days up to 750 more people are at risk of being ejected from their accommodation.
Greece: thousands of migrants at risk of homelessness as EU scheme ends
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Greece wants him in prison. Instead, heâs in the EU Parliament
By Matina Stevis-Gridneff New York Times,Updated December 20, 2020, 12:48 a.m.
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European Parliament member Ioannis Lagos, who had been found guilty along with others of leading a criminal organization and face five to 15 years in prison, walked during a break of a court session on his sentencing in Athens, Monday, Oct. 12, 2020.Petros Giannakouris/Associated Press
BRUSSELS â It was a routine European Parliament session in late November, with lawmakers discussing growing tensions between the European Union and Turkey, when the speaker of the house casually gave the floor to a Greek deputy, Ioannis Lagos.