‘I wish we had died in the war, instead’

Stuck in unsanitary camps and a bureaucratic nightmare, asylum-seekers live in limbo on the Greek island of Lesbos, say Yanis Varoufakis and George Tyrikos-Ergas.

IN 2015, hundreds of thousands of refugees landed on Greece’s island shores. Today, the international public has been lulled into believing that Greece’s refugee crisis has abated. But it has become a permanent scourge, blighting Europe’s soul and brewing

future trouble. The island of Lesbos is its epicentre.