Greece is now facing a migrant issue and not a refugee issue, as was the case in 2015, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday, addressing the parliament during the prime minister’s question time, according to ANA.
He also underlined the need to update the 2016 EU-Turkey agreement on handling refugees and migrants and noted that migration was “here to stay”.
Responding to a question raised by MeRA25 leader Yanis Varoufakis regarding the abolition of the Moria camp, Mitsotakis explained that the majority of those now arriving in Greece illegally were economic migrants, not refugees. “Only two in 10 are Syrians,” he noted.
He reiterated that this policy is now changing through concrete actions, specifically referring to changes in the procedures for granting asylum.
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