German NGO to fund facility for refugees in northern Greece

Plans are afoot for the creation of a new reception center for refugees near Thermi, east of Thessaloniki, funded by a German nongovernmental organization, Kathimerini understands.

Representatives of a large German NGO recently visited Thessaloniki for talks with local officials about creating the center, which would hold up to 1,500 refugees, Kathimerini has learned. The NGO is said to be offering 5 million euros for use by local authorities.

Meanwhile, migrants living in a makeshift camp near the village of Idomeni in northern Greece are continuing their efforts to cross the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia despite a crackdown at the frontier by FYROM border guards.

On Thursday, a group of around 100 refugees approached the barbed wire fence that forms the border between the two countries but were pushed back by police.

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