(ANSA) - BRUSSELS, DECEMBER 08 - "I was there together with His Holiness who very clearly recognized a significant improvement in the situation on the ground compared to his first visit to Lesbos, in 2016, when over 15 thousand people lived in the unsanitary jungle in Moria".
Thus the vice-president of the European Commission Margaritis Schinas replying to journalists who asked him for a comment on the words of the Pope who had spoken of a "shipwreck of civilization".
"There are now less than 2,000 people in new facilities that are still being built," added Schinas.
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