Sixty out of 93 hotel facilities for refugees to close in 2020

Sixty out of the current 93 hospitality openings created in hotels for asylum seekers on the mainland will be closed in 2020 and the residents will be transferred to other facilities or will be included in the the UN Refugee Agency's ESTIA integration program, Migration and Asylum Policy Minister Notis Mitarakis said on Thursday.

Mitarakis was addressing a training seminar of the 32 governors chosen for the existing temporary hospitality facilities in the mainland.

"It will be the first time that these facilities will have governors, who will report directly to the Greek State," he said.

According to the minister, their selection was made based on their formal qualifications and on their ability to manage the facilities, build communication with the resident asylum seekers and the local communities.

In his address Mitarakis also told the new governors...