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EU starts legal action against Greece, Italy and Croatia for failing to fingerprint migrants: Tens of thousands have not been registered over last few months
PUBLISHED: 17:09, 10 December 2015 | UPDATED: 20:38, 10 December 2015
The European Union has started legal action against Greece, Italy and Croatia for failing to correctly register migrants.
Tens of thousands of migrants have arrived in the three countries over the past few months but less than half of them have been registered by national authorities.
Greece has only fingerprinted around 121,000 of the almost 500,000 people who arrived there between July 20 and November 30 this year, according to the European Commission.
It comes as Turkey's coastguard last night picked up more than 150 migrants seeking to cross to Greece in three flimsy dinghies during a night time swoop on their routes across the Aegean Sea.
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EU starts legal action against Greece, Italy and Croatia
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EU starts legal action against Greece, Italy and Croatia for failing to fingerprint migrants: Tens of thousands have not been registered over last few months
- The EU initiated action against the countries for failing to register migrants
- It claims the three countries have not fingerprinted thousands of refugees
- Greece has only fingerprinted 121,000 of the 500,000 people who arrived
- Fears are growing that terrorists are arriving in Europe posing as migrants
- Two of the Paris suicide bombers entered Europe via the Balkans route
PUBLISHED: 17:09, 10 December 2015 | UPDATED: 20:38, 10 December 2015
The European Union has started legal action against Greece, Italy and Croatia for failing to correctly register migrants.
Tens of thousands of migrants have arrived in the three countries over the past few months but less than half of them have been registered by national authorities.
Greece has only fingerprinted around 121,000 of the almost 500,000 people who arrived there between July 20 and November 30 this year, according to the European Commission.
It comes as Turkey's coastguard last night picked up more than 150 migrants seeking to cross to Greece in three flimsy dinghies during a night time swoop on their routes across the Aegean Sea.
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EU starts legal action against Greece, Italy and Croatia