Greece requests financial, humanitarian aid from EU
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Greece submitted a request to the European Union to activate its EU Civil Protection Mechanism and provide additional financial aid, so as to help the country deal with the massive inflow of refugees and migrants on its islands, the Interior ministry said on Monday.
The request, provided by the First Reception Service, details its needs in staff, medical and pharmaceutical supplies, clothes, equipment for living and work spaces, electrical appliances and linens.
"The satisfaction of the said request is expected to be of critical importance to the work of the First Reception Service which, under current conditions, is extremely difficult," the Service said.
In a separate announcement, the Service said it requested 9,57 million euros in aid from the European Commission to finance the operation of the first reception center in Lesvos and an outpost in Greece’s northeastern border of Evros, as well as mobile units on the islands of Samos, Lesvos and Kos.
The funds will also be used to create a new First Reception unit in Attica and reopen the First Reception Centre in Mersinidi of Chios, which had operated for a short while before a similar unit opened in Lesvos.
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