“I agree with what David Sassoli said and I share his ambitious agenda regarding reforming the European institutions, but I would politely disagree with his assessment regarding the decision taken yesterday by the European Council at the level of ministers regarding Afghanistan,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Wednesday during his introductory speech at a panel in which he participates in the framework of the Bled Strategic Forum 2021, in Bled, Slovenia and added:
“What we said was very clear that we do not want a repeat the uncontrolled and unregulated massive massive migration flows we experienced in 2015. And I stand by this as a country that was a victim to a policy that ended up highlighting significant failures of the European institutions because we have not yet been able to agree on a common migration and refugee path. But we agreed that there is a need to protect our borders, which we must do in a disciplined and principled manner, with full respect to international law, but we must also acknowledge as Europe and European institutions that we need to learn from our mistakes. And I think that what happened in 2015 was a mistake, we openly acknowledged it and we addressed the need to further support the social dimension of the refugee issue in the case of Afghanistan.”
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