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The Latest: Amnesty slams conditions for migrants in Greece

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    A baby holds the fence at Amygdaleza pre-departure center for refugees and migrants who are asking to return home, in Athens, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016. The old migrant detention center with capacity for 300 people will be used to temporarily house those who voluntarily return to their countries. More than 60,000 migrants and refugees are stranded in transit in Greece. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (The Associated Press)

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    Children from Iraq stand behind the fence as a policewoman stands guard at Amygdaleza pre-departure center for refugees and migrants who are asking to return home, in Athens, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2016. The old migrant detention center with capacity for 300 people will be used to temporarily house those who voluntarily return to their countries. More than 60,000 migrants and refugees are stranded in transit in Greece. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) (The Associated Press)

BRUSSELS – The Latest on the flow of migrants into Europe (all times local):

11:25 a.m.

The rights group Amnesty International has slammed Europe's response to the refugee crisis in a new report on the situation in Greece, which has been the main point of entry of migrants and refugees seeking to reach the European Union.

Amnesty said Thursday that most of the roughly 60,000 people stranded in Greece are living in "appalling conditions" and face "immense and avoidable suffering."

The group criticized Europe for failing to fulfill commitments to relocate refugees from the countries they arrived in, saying only 4,000 people have been relocated instead of the 66,400 promised over two years.

Amnesty called on Greece to improve conditions and on European countries to speed up the relocation process, saying it will take 18 years at the current rate to fulfil relocation pledges.

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10:55 a.m.

The head of the European Union's executive arm has lashed out at member countries for failing take refugees from overwhelmed Greece and Italy often because the migrants are Muslims.

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Thursday that some EU states believe that "we are Catholic countries. We don't have any room for Muslims."

Juncker said "I find that kind of reasoning unacceptable. People come first, then religion. It's not religion first, then people."

EU nations voted in September 2015 to share over two years 160,000 refugees in Greece, Italy and any other country unable to cope with migrant arrivals. So far, only around 5,000 refugees have been relocated. At that rate it would take almost two decades to meet the goal.