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Migrants enter a Greek Navy ship which will accommodate them at the port of Mytilene on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. Turkey made good on a threat to open its borders and send migrants into Europe last week. In the past few days hundreds of people have headed to Greek islands from the nearby Turkish coast in dinghies. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas)

Migrants enter a Greek Navy ship which will accommodate them at the port of Mytilene on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. Turkey made good on a threat to open its borders and send migrants into Europe last week. In the past few days hundreds of people have headed to Greek islands from the nearby Turkish coast in dinghies. (AP Photo/Panagiotis Balaskas)

March 5, 2020

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Five years on, ill-prepared EU sees migrants on its borders
March 5, 2020 4:09 a.m.

Five years on, ill-prepared EU sees migrants on its borders

Brussels (AP) — Thousands of migrants massed on Greece’s borders with Turkey, and security forces struggling to keep them at bay. Five years on it feels like deja vu, yet the European Union seems just as ill-prepared as it was last time around.