PM Mitsotakis in Parliament says very few migrants are refugees
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
Greece is now facing a migrant issue and not a refugee one, as it was the case in 2015, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday addressing the parliament.
He explained that the majority of the people coming to Greece are economic migrants and not refugees. Only a 2 percent are Syrians, he said.
Mitsotakis responds to a question raised by MeRA 25 leader Yanis Varoufakis regarding the abolition of the Moria camp.
Varoufakis has asked the prime minister to inform the Parliament whether he intends to close the Moria camp and whether he will "abolish internal borders that deprive migrants of the right to free movement within the country."
Mitsotakis has also been asked to present the timetable regarding the establishment of a series of small facilities across the country to integrate migrant families currently in Moria into local communities in a way that benefits both local communities and the refugees.
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