''On the other side, the European Commission says that, if Turkey ceases
patrolling its coastline and the number of refugees crossing the Aegean
increases as a result, the hotspots on the Greek islands are ready.
Because the Macedonian border would likely remain sealed, Greece would
then become a gigantic refugee camp. Additional funding and assistance
for the Greek administration are on standby for such an eventuality.
Rejected asylum-seekers would then have to be flown home from Greece,
but doing so would require repatriation deals with the source countries,
and such deals currently exist only with some of them. Syrian refugees,
of whom some 2 million are currently living in Turkey, couldn't be sent
back to their war-torn country anyway. They would remain in the EU..''
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