of Yiannis Anifantis

The alarm bell for the migratory rejected by the Plenary of the Parliament o Nikos Panagiotopoulospointing out that an invasion of Israel to Lebanon would trigger a wave of millions of refugees.

“No strategy will have any effect if tomorrow there is a major flare-up in Lebanon with a ground invasion by Israeli troops which will create waves of millions of refugees and inevitably some of them will try to enter Europe and from our country. So that’s where all the strategies go wrong. And we are going into a situation of dealing with a crisis, for which we are preparing as much as we can, but this is not only a matter for Greece, it is also for the whole of Europe, not to mention the Western World in general”, emphasized the Minister of Immigration and Asylum from the floor of the Parliament, answering to a question from Niki MP Tasos Oikonomopoulos.

In fact, referring to the EU’s financial aid to Greece, he noted that the European partners allocated 3.4 billion euros to our country for the period 2015-2021 (when the problem was also on fire), while for the period 2021-2027, amount of 1.6 billion However, he emphasized that if the facts change on the immigration front, the Greek government will request additional funding, while clarifying that “there is no question of mass returns of refugees from Germany to Greece”.