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Amid Stalemate Over Greece-Turkey Border Crisis, EU Takes In Migrant Children

Henry Ridgwell

   LONDON - As thousands of migrants continue to mass on the Turkey-Greece
   border, there were few signs of a breakthrough in emergency talks
   between Turkey and the European Union Monday.

   Meanwhile five EU member states, Germany, Finland, France, Luxembourg
   and Portugal, agreed to take in unaccompanied migrant children who are
   stuck in Greece, though the numbers are unclear.

   Ankara encouraged migrants to head to the Greek border last week,
   accusing the EU of failing to keep to the promises it made in a 2016
   deal struck at the height of the European refugee crisis. Turkey is
   hosting around 4 million migrants, many of them escaping the war in
   Syria.

   However, critics say most of those trying to cross into Greece are not
   from Syria and accuse Turkey of weaponizing migrants to blackmail
   Europe.

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