Greece: EP's Schulz calls on EU to help Greece with refugee crisis

European Parliament President Martin Schulz met with refugees at the Galatsi Olympic Hall in Athens, Wednesday. During his visit Schulz called for more support from "all states of the European Union" in helping Greece cope with the large influx of refugees arriving in the country. "We must help Greece with financial needs and with infrastructure to build the hotspots. We must help the country accompany the refugees, the country alone is unable to do it with these high numbers" he said. At the end of September, EU officials reached an agreement to move an estimated 160,000 refugees from Greece and Italy to other member states over a period of two years. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean and landed on European shores in 2015 alone, with southern Europe seeing the majority of arrivals.