The European Commission says Greece will be able to manage a Covid-19 outbreak at a refugee camp near Athens.
"I think they can manage," Ylva Johansson, the European Commissioner for home affairs, told MEPs on Thursday (2 April).
The outbreak is linked to the Ritsona camp of some 2,700 people who are all now under quarantine.
At least 23 have been tested positive without showing any symptoms. Greek authorities had identified the first case after a woman from the camp gave b...
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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.