The refugee issue is the biggest challenge for Europe and each partner is being tested every day on whether it deserves to be an integral part of the whole European structure, Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said during his address to a conference of the National Commission Against Racism and Intolerance.

Greece will fully respect fully its commitments both concerning its economic adjustment program and the refugee crisis, but then the country’s partners must keep their promise and discuss debt relief, Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Monday after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.

The refugee crisis, "which constitutes a plague for Greece and Germany" and the course of the reforms under the third financial support program will be on the agenda of the meeting between German Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of the Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Monday, January 18, in Berlin, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert said.