It appears that Cyprus is under estimating the Power of its HATED Migrants soon to arrive via the so called "Occupied Area".....Now Greece, and NEXT the Greek Cypriot Side of Cyprus is Short-listed........I bet you're NOT loving the EU now? you should have listened to Archbishop Chrysostomou when he said that the EU will Condemn the "Beautiful, Cyprus Lira and its culture to a worthless community". Oh Well, I guess what goes around, COMES AROUND!
Let's see how the Greek Cypriots deal with the hundreds of thousands of Migrants soon to dive their way - if it hasn't started already.
Migrants one step ahead of EU in Greece
As the European Union border agency Frontex prepared to deploy its first-ever rapid intervention teams Tuesday to help Greece with an illegal-immigration crisis, migrants continued to stream across the country’s northeastern border with Turkey.
Dozens of illegal immigrants crossed the border from Saturday night to Sunday morning, wading across streams and tramping through frozen fields to reach frontier villages near the town of Orestiada in far northeastern Greece.
Greece currently accounts for 90 percent of the EU’s detected illegal border crossings, and has reported 45,000 such crossings in just the first half of 2010, Frontex figures show. EU sea patrols in the Aegean between Greece and Turkey have stemmed much of the flow of migrants to Greek islands near the Turkish coast, and the vast majority now use the northern land border, with most crossing along a 12-kilometer stretch near Orestiada.
Already facing a major financial crisis, Greece has said its facilities are overwhelmed and it cannot cope with the numbers. Panagiotis Siankouris, mayor of Vyssa, the area that sees the greatest influx, told the Associated Press on Sunday that between 100 and 300 people cross each day. Most wait to be picked up by police and taken to a local detention center, where they are held for a few days before being released with papers that give them a month to leave the country.
Last week, Civil Protection Minister Christos Papoutsis appealed to Warsaw-based Frontex for help, and as of Tuesday, the agency is to deploy 175 staff to the Orestiada area as Rapid Border Intervention Teams. The deployment is scheduled to last for two months.
“The immigration flow at our borders is very intense,” Papoutsis said in an interview in the Free Sunday newspaper. “Alone, our country cannot deal with a phenomenon that is not local, but European. As such, it requires European solutions, it requires European coordination.”
The minister said Greece was also sending a message “to the international community, the countries that are the starting point of the immigration flow, and to Turkey, from which we expect more cooperation in dealing with the international network of smugglers who are commercializing migrants’ hopes for a better life.”
The Frontex rapid intervention officers, drawn from the 27 countries in the European Union, will include experts in false documents, border checks, stolen vehicles and clandestine entry, as well as interviewers, interpreters and dog handlers, the agency said Friday.
Frontex is also sending equipment, including a helicopter, buses, patrol cars and vans with thermal-imaging gear from Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, as well as a Danish office unit.
