The EU made a show yesterday of the first deportations under its contentious plan to send refugees from Greece back to Turkey.
A total of 202, mainly from Pakistan and Afghanistan, who had failed to apply formally for asylum in Greece, were sent back from Lesbos and Chios to the Turkish coastal town of Dikili.
The move came as officials in Brussels and Athens tried to inject some momentum into the scheme before it faces the trickier legal and practical tasks of deporting refugees from countries such as Syria. “The tough cases are still to come,” warned one EU official.
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