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In the old part of the camp, the chalets are already showing signs of wear and tear (Photo: Joseph Boyle)

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Samos: Inside Greece's 'nightmare' EU hotspot

In the old part of the camp, the chalets are already showing signs of wear and tear (Photo: Joseph Boyle)

Health workers flit between containers, stepping over tents and body-swerving gaggles of giggling children. It's vaccination day at the camp holding asylum seekers on Samos, a Greek island just 1.5 km from the Turkish coast.

While the children are out in force playing with balloons, boxes, bottles and whatever else they can grab, the adults are taking refuge from the baking heat, lying in tents or ducking under umbrellas.

The "hotspot," in EU policy jargon, which was built on a n...

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