16 March 2016•Update: 19 March 2016
ROME
Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has said that the European Union, which managed to send a spacecraft to Mars, has floundered at the northern Greek town of Idomeni where thousands of refugees remain stranded on the Greece-Macedonia border.
Speaking to parliament Wednesday ahead of a Turkey-EU Summit on to begin tomorrow, Renzi said that a third meeting of the European Council in a month indicated “some things are not going well”.
Renzi reminded Italian MPs that the European Space Agency yesterday launched a spacecraft called ExoMars to the red planet, saying: “Europe goes to Mars but stops at Idomeni.
“You see that a child born in a refugee camp is being washed with bottled water.”
More than 10,000 refugees and asylum seekers are still at the Idomeni transit camp hoping they will be able to move ahead to northern Europe, according to data released by the Greek Interior Ministry.
