The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) and the Greek government signed a deal on Tuesday to boost EASO's operational deployments in the country, which is struggling to process asylum requests and overcrowded hotspots in the islands.

The agreement was signed in Athens by the Executive Director of EASO, Nina Gregori, and the Greek Alternate Minister for Migration and Asylum, Giorgos Koumoutsakos.

"We have already started further expanding our support in the country in these weeks, and tod...