Insecurity about migrants is widespread in a Europe blighted by unemployment and welfare cuts. The UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, says a record 7,000 Syrian migrants arrived in Macedonia alone on 7 September 2015 and 30,000 were on Greek islands. A Greek minister has said that the island of Lesbos, which sits off the Turkish coast, was “on the verge of an explosion” due to a build-up of 20,000 migrants.
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Insecurity about migrants is widespread in a Europe blighted by unemployment and welfare cuts. The UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, says a record 7,000 Syrian migrants arrived in Macedonia alone on 7 September 2015 and 30,000 were on Greek islands. A Greek minister has said that the island of Lesbos, which sits off the Turkish coast, was “on the verge of an explosion” due to a build-up of 20,000 migrants.