Greece's army and police on the alert in frontier with Turkey

Greek military and police forces remained on high alert at the land the border between Greece and Turkey, the hot spot currently in a growing row between Turkey and the European Union over how to deal with a new wave of migrants and refugees.

About 10,000 immigrants have been trying to storm the border since Thursday, when Turkey said it was no longer bound by a 2016 agreement with the European Union to keep refugees on its soil in exchange for billions of aid.

Greek authorities said the border was calm during Monday night, after clashes since the beginning of the week in which police used tear gas against migrants, including children and women.

"There were only a few attempts today (by migrants to cross the border)," said an officer with an automatic rifle near the Kastaniye border crossing. We hope they got the message. ”Army vehicles roamed the area. The streets leading to the Evros River, which forms the border between Turkey and Greece remained closed.

"The borders of Greece are also the borders of Europe," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a statement issued ahead of an inspection visit to the region later in the day with heads of the three main institutions of the European Union.The heads of the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament want to show their solidarity with Greece, which is struggling to stop a new wave of migrants.

European leaders strive to avoid a recurrence of the 2015 and 2016 crisis when more than a million immigrants, mostly from the Middle East and Asia entered the European Union countries from Turkey through Greece and the Balkans, which placed great strains on European security and social welfare systems and strengthened support for far-right parties.