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ATHENS The Greece government fears a new influx of refugees if the European Union (EU)-Turkey agreement on migrants/asylum seekers returning to Turkey fails, a media report said on Sunday. The Greece Minister of Migration, Yanis Muzalas, insists there was a minimum increase in arrivals since the failed Turkish coup and that at least 100 refugees a day was simply not comparable to the thousands of arrivals earlier in 2016, Efe news reported. The numbers might not seem dramatic but they were enough to collapse the islands dealing with arrivals, currently there were over 10,000 refugees in reception centres with a maximum capacity of 7,000. Since last years closure of borders, Greece feels it endured the brunt of the refugee crisis, along with Italy and Germany which granted refuge to over a million people. (IANS)
