Why is Greece’s refugee policy such a mess?
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
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🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In 2015, the 'migrant crisis' was the front page story of every newspaper in Europe. Today more than 42,000 people are still stranded on the Greek islands, in shameful conditions — and yet we barely talk about it. Migration researcher Apostolis Fotadis joins us from Athens to explain why Greece's refugee policy has become such a disaster. Also this week: big changes in Portugal, criminally-bad (?) singing in Croatia, and a Finnish mystery.
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| 0:00.0 | We're lucky there's an episode at all today, frankly, because I've just been to the dentist here in Paris, and I was quite worried I was going to come away with like 15 fillings, thanks to my horrendous |
| 0:25.3 | sweet tooth. And actually, you can hear them squeaking. They're that clean. Can you hear that? |
| 0:29.5 | Yes, I can. It's kind of disgusting. Why didn't they give you fillings? Because I'm amazing. |
| 0:35.9 | I got something called detatrage instead. |
| 0:38.5 | I've got really advanced French dentistry vocab. |
| 0:42.0 | This is what happens when you live in a country for a while. |
| 0:44.4 | I've also got really good bike repair vocabulary, things that I can't say in English. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah, all the important things. |
| 0:49.3 | I've got some like theatre technician vocabulary in Dutch that I don't even know the word in English. But that's |
| 0:57.6 | great news and makes me remember I need to go to the dentist to visit your dentist everyone. |
| 1:02.7 | My teeth aren't even that clean right now. I've just been eating some olives. Speaking of |
| 1:07.2 | olives, we're going to Greece this week. What do you think of that segue? That's not appropriate considering what we're going to be talking about. |
| 1:14.2 | We're going to be speaking to a Greek researcher based in Athens, Apostolos Photiades, |
| 1:19.7 | who writes a lot about migrant rights and population movement. |
| 1:23.4 | It's not exactly on the front page of every newspaper anymore, |
| 1:27.1 | the influx of migrants onto the Greek islands, |
| 1:30.1 | but it is still happening, |
| 1:31.8 | and there are tens and tens of thousands of people |
| 1:34.3 | living in a pretty awful condition on these Aegean islands. |
| 1:38.5 | So we'll be calling Aposolos later in the show |
| 1:40.9 | to find out what the situation is over there. |
| 1:43.3 | So that is coming up after, as always. |
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