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EU migrant crisis: Greece 'neglected' border controls | |
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Greece has "seriously neglected" its obligations to control the EU's external borders, the European Commission has said in a draft report. | |
The assessment found failures to register, check and fingerprint migrants arriving in November. | |
Greece is required to control its borders as part of the passport-free Schengen accord and has been given three months to improve the situation. | |
If it does not, other Schengen states could temporarily close their borders. | |
More than 850,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Greece last year. | |
A further 44,000 have reached the Greek islands since the start of 2016, mostly arriving on Lesbos, Samos and Chios from the Turkish mainland. |