GJIROKASTER, Nov. 7 – The European Union border protection agency, Frontex, says it will deploy forces along Greece’s border with Albania.
Frontex head Fabrice Leggeri told Albanian private television station Top Channel the agency wants to prevent migrants from attempting to reach Western Europe by traveling through Albania.
That route isn’t used much at the moment by the large number of people fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Tirana says, however, it has made preparations to shelter refugees should they begin arriving during the winter.
Leggeri said there was no plan for a camp in Albania as “that could be a burden on the countries in the region and it is not in line with the union’s decisions for the distribution of the emigrants from Greece to the other EU countries.”
