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Fires at Greek refugee camp highlight EU's migration failure

Fires that broke out early Wednesday morning have destroyed Moria, an overcrowded migrant camp on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, leaving thousands of people without shelter and throwing a harsh light on the EU's migration policy failures. John Psaropoulos, an independent journalist based in Greece and Al Jazeera’s southeast Europe correspondent, joins us from Lesvos with an on the ground report.

You can read the articles we discuss on The Daily Roundup here:

Greek refugee camp blaze highlights EU’s migration failure

Europe scrambles to address fate of Greek camp residents

New fire breaks out in crowded refugee camp on Greek island

Turkey must stop its aggression or face EU sanctions, says Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Cyprus to raise Turkish provocations at Med7 summit

Cyprus problem, Varosha on MED7 summit agenda

Greek PM to hold talks with French president

Athens to submit proposals for de-escalation with Turkey to NATO

Concerns grow as Oruc Reis gets closer to Kastellorizo

 

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