FRA met with various staff, including staff in charge of reception of new arrivals, police, guardians and medical staff, Frontex experts, and UN Refugee Agency and EU Asylum Authority deployees.
Overall, conditions have improved since FRA’s last visit, though single men are still housed in large tents and residents remain de facto deprived of liberty without receiving a detention decision.
Authorities expect this to change once Pournara becomes a screening facility.
Release and onward movement have improved but transfers of vulnerable people remains challenging.