More than a dozen people were hurt and over 30 tents burnt in clashes between Afghan and Pakistanis at the Moria detention camp on Lesbos in June

They have no access to heat, electricity and hot water. Medics are nowhere to be seen. Rats run freely in and around the tents.

On the Greek islands where Europe’s biggest humanitarian crisis in a generation was meant to be solved, rubbish piles up for days. On Samos, which lies less than a mile from the Turkish coast, 4,000 refugees and migrants are crowded into a camp that was built for 600.

Under an agreement struck between Turkey and the EU in March 2016, these island camps were supposed to temporarily shoulder the burden of the 1.2 million refugees and migrants who had streamed across the Aegean over the previous year.

Authorities have withdrawn medical services and septic tanks are overflowing at Moria camp on the island of Lesbos GIORGOS MOUTAFIS /REUTERS

Ankara would take steps to shut down the people smugglers, the richer European countries