In a statement to German Bild newspaper, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis refers to the measures the government is taking to reduce illegal migrants from Libya, saying that “Greece is not an open transit route”.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan pressured Angela Merkel to leave Greece out of the summit, reports German newspaper Bild on Greece's exclusion from the Berlin summit, one day after Sunday's warning that Greece would veto a political solution to the Libyan problem without the cancellation of that memorandum.

"On Friday, hundreds of refugees arrived within an hour on the Greek island," writes the German daily Bild, paintin a dark picture of the situation in Lesvos.