Crisis in Greece: 100 thousand more immigrants expected in 2020

Greece's government has predicted the arrival of 100,000 more immigrants from Turkey in 2020 than in the current year. Asylum seekers are continuing every day to arrive on the shores of Greek islands such as Lesbos and Samos, and intensity seems to grow.

Manos Logothetis, government immigration commissioner, said the “crisis is happening now, and it is serious. ”

In the past six months, 45 thousand refugees arrived in Greece, leading the government commissioner to say the situation was the most critical “to Greece in this period than it was in 2015, writes Periscope.

While currently according to the Greek government, there are more than 41,000 people waiting in notorious camps on islands such as Moria on Lesbos or Vathy on Samos.

According to the news group Funk, Germany, despite the growing crisis this year sent fewer officials to assist Greek authorities in the islands. /Periscope