Greece resists its role as EU's back door
Exasperated with Athens' policy of waving people through to the rest of Europe, EU officials are talking about temporarily expelling Greece from the Schengen area
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Idomeni, Greece
ON a recent weekday, 40 buses jammed into the carpark of a petrol station near the Macedonian border, carrying thousands of refugees who had survived a wintry sea crossing from Turkey. Now they were approaching ground zero in the intensifying debate over how to curb the unceasing stream of men, women and children from war-ravaged and poor nations in the Middle East and Africa to the safety and prosperity of Europe.
After trying and largely failing to persuade Turkey to stem the flow, Europe has reached a critical point in the migrant crisis. With few options left short of halting the war in Syria, much of the Continent is coalescing around proposals that would harden the border with Macedonia and effectively turn Greece into a giant processing centre for migrants.
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