The European Trade Union Confederation is calling on the European Union to: 

• Save migrants from appalling living conditions and reported human rights violations on the Greek Turkish border
• Evacuate the migrants from insanitary and overcrowded camps on the Greek islands to avoid a devastating outbreak of coronavirus

In a letter to the Presidents of the three main EU institutions – Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel and David Sassoli – ETUC General Secretary Luca Visentini asks the European Commission to submit to the Council a proposal for a protection scheme for the immediate relief of displaced people at Greek borders with contributions from all member states and regrets that recent EU decisions have been going in the opposite direction.

It also calls for “the immediate evacuation of the migrants in the Greek islands to an appropriate and safe accommodation”. There are 42,000 people in overcrowded camps on the Greek islands. In some parts of Moria camp in Lesvos there is just one water tap for every 1,300 people with no soap available, and families of five or six have to sleep in spaces of no more than three square metres.

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