Refugees and migrants wait to be registered at a site on the Greek island of Lesbos, in this handout photo released by the Greek Prime Minister's Office on December 15, 2015. REUTERS/Greek Prime Minister's Office/Handout via Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters) - In a last-minute drive to assure European Union partners that it is getting to grips with a mass influx of refugees, Greece released aerial photographs on Tuesday of new registration centres for migrants on its northern Aegean islands.
The move is part of Athens' efforts, ahead of an EU summit starting on Thursday, to rebuff criticism by Germany and other EU governments that it has done too little to manage the flow of hundreds of thousands of people arriving on its shores.
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