Brussels deploys new force in attempt to curb entry of hundreds of illegal migrants a day via large unmonitored area
Ian Traynor in Brussels and Helena Smith in Samos | Monday 25 October 2010
Ian Traynor in Brussels and Helena Smith in Samos | Monday 25 October 2010
A new force of armed European guards is to be dispatched to Greece to patrol the country's border with Turkey in an attempt to stem steeply increasing illegal immigration into Europe.The deployment of the Rapid Intervention Border Teams, assembled from the border guard forces of other European countries, will be the first time Brussels has deployed multinational armed units on the EU's external land border.
