“We need to allocate refugees from Greece, not bring more back” says Kyriakos Mitsotakis

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Greece needs to start talks on how more refugees can leave the country, as part of a new relocation program to other European countries, and not how they can return to Greece, said New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis as he arrived at a meeting of the European People’s Party in Brussels on Wednesday.

Mitsotakis added that the EU’s cohesion is being tested by the refugee crisis and asked that the solutions put forth be European and based on principals of efficiency, solidarity and a fair distribution of weight amidst all countries in the European Union.

He said: «The first priority should be the efficient protection of Europe’s external borders and the single asylum process to all those who try to enter Europe. (Prime Minister Alexis) Tsipras, unfortunately, has a large responsibility for the open border policy he adopted in 2015. As he also has a large responsibility for the fact that asylum procedures in our country, on the Greek islands, delay unnecessarily, resulting in the situation on many islands being today tragic.”

Source: AMNA