A wider government meeting on migration issues affecting the Greek islands and ways to deal with the problem concluded at the Interior ministry on Thursday.

The meeting was attended by EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship, Dimitris Avramopoulos, Alternate Minister for Migration Policy Tasia Christodoulopoulou, Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis, State Minister for Coordinating Government Operations Alekos Flambouraris, Alternate Shipping Minister Thodoris Dritsas and Alternate Minister for Civil Protection Yannis Panousis.

Participants also discussed other urgent issues which concern migration.

The agreement signed by Greece and its creditors is “very bad”, the leader of main opposition New Democracy said on Tuesday, and accused the government of wasting time in useless talks.

The party leaders' meeting that will decide on the restart of the parliament's operation which has been interrupted for the summer has been scheduled by parliament president Zoi Konstantopoulou to start at 21.30 on Wednesday, according to information.

The Greek government is claiming it has achieved a better agreement with the country’s creditors compared with the measures requested by the troika from the previous government, in a document published on Tuesday which compares the result of this negotiation with the talks held in December 2014.