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Migrant crisis: Dozens drown in shipwrecks off Greece
A total of 42 migrants are reported to have drowned
overnight in two separate shipwrecks in the Aegean Sea.
One boat went down off the coast of the small Greek islet of Kalolimnos,
killing 34 people, including 11 children.
Another eight people died after a boat sank off the
island of Farmakonisi.
Over a million migrants arrived in Europe illegally
last year. More than 700 died in the Aegean crossing from Turkey to Greece.
At least another 100 have died in the Aegean this
year.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is on Friday meeting Turkish Prime
Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in Berlin to discuss the crisis.
Cabinet
ministers from both countries will be in attendance.
On Thursday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls
warned that Europe's migration crisis was putting the European Union at grave
risk.
Mr Valls told the BBC that Europe could not take all the refugees fleeing wars in Iraq or
Syria. If it did, he said, it could "destabilise our societies".
'Population
shifts'
The Greek coastguard said it had rescued 26 people
from the sinking of the wooden sailboat off Kalolimnos, but that it had
recovered 34 bodies - 16 women, 11 children and seven men.
It was not known how many people were on the boat,
but some estimates
said up to 100, and a search is continuing for more survivors.
The boat off Farmakonisi was carrying 48 people. Forty made it to shore
and one girl was rescued, but the bodies of six children and one woman were
found.
BBC Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas says the cold and the dangers
do not appear to be deterring refugees from trying to reach Europe - more than 30,000 have
made such crossings to Greece already this year.
( deter = to prevent someone from doing something by making it difficult to do it)
Turkey is home to nearly three million refugees, most
of them from Syria.
Many of them pay smugglers thousands of dollars to make the
crossing to Greece. They then head north, trying to reach Germany and
Scandinavia.
Where
Europe is failing on migrants
§ The 28 member states have not agreed on an EU-wide mechanism for relocating migrants, meant to ease the burden on Greece and Italy. Only small groups have been relocated so far - and several states in Central and Eastern Europe refuse to accept migrants
§ The Schengen agreement on freedom
of movement is in jeopardy
- Hungary fenced
off its borders with Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia; some other Schengen
countries have re-imposed
border controls: Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, France and Belgium
§ The Dublin regulation is not
working effectively. Countries are no longer sending back migrants to their
first point of entry to the EU
§ Thousands of migrants - many of
them Syrian war refugees - still arrive daily from Turkey
§ Processing of asylum applications is
slow and there is a big backlog
- so reception centres are overcrowded
§ Germany - the main destination
for migrants - is rethinking its open-door policy, partly because of outrage over assaults on women in
Cologne at New Year
Mrs Merkel is meeting Mr Davutoglu amid mounting pressure to
rethink Germany's open-door policy and impose caps on its refugee intake.
Mr Valls appeared to suggest her current message was
wrong in his interview with Lyse Doucet, the BBC's chief international
correspondent.
Although he said Mrs Merkel "had courage",
he added: "A message that says 'Come, you will be welcome' provokes major
shifts" in population.
He
added: "We know clearly that after the Cologne incidents that with the continuous flow, not only to Germany
but the countries of Northern Europe, Austria, the Balkans are confronted with this influx, that's why we
need to find practical solutions for our borders."
Mr
Valls was referring to attacks in the German city on New Year's Eve - largely
attributed to foreigners - that have sparked 800 complaints,
520 of them relating to sexual crimes.
EU countries hope Turkey will help to control the
flow of migrants.
Mrs Merkel has urged the EU to honour its pledge of €3bn euros ($3.3bn) to improve
conditions for refugees living there.
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