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Inside Europe: Migrants to head back to Greece

Anthee Carassava
September 1, 2017

EU countries are going to start sending migrants back to Greece to have their asylum applications assessed there. According to EU rules migrants have to apply for asylum in the country they first entered. This requirement was suspended after hundreds of thousands of people arrived in Greece from Turkey. Now the practice is being resumed as Athens correspondent Anthee Carassava explains.

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