What's this about Greek authorities abandoning refugees at sea?

This summer, Greece made headlines with allegations that authorities were deterring incoming refugees by intercepting their boats and abandoning them at sea on damaged rafts. Some asylum seekers even reported being outright expelled (illegally) in the middle of the night by masked officials from detention centers on Greek islands and, again, being left on unsafe boats to fend for themselves in the Aegean. This all as the Mediterranean country is still dealing with another crisis; the burning of their largest migration reception center, Moria, which left 13,000 migrants with nowhere to go.

Five years following the first massive wave of asylum seekers, how do the European Union and Greece still get it wrong? In our first ever episode, we take a deep dive into the history of the refugee emergency in the Eastern Mediterranean and look at what the EU is doing to deal with the humanitarian crisis today.

Music Credits:
'The Sad Piano' by Dasgoat– https://freesound.org/dasgoat
'Mystery Unsolved' by Shane Ivers – https://www.silvermansound.com
'Clarinets' by Charalambos Chrysanthou


Intro music: 'Chicago' by Charalambos Chrysanthou