“The reaction of the Turks was expected,” the Minister of Immigration and Asylum told SKAI, Makis Voridisfor the Announcement of marine spatial planningwhile stressing that Greece’s position is now clear towards Turkey. At the same time, he also referred to the bill coming for the returns of irregular immigrants, which, he noted, is tightened.

“Something that had not been done for 20 years, this government has done so”the minister said of the MSS, and noted that it is also important in the environment. “We finally have the anthropogenic uses and specific areas defined. We are interested in our seas and our environment, fishing, and fish farming. Is a one significant development part that had not been done for many years. “

For the geopolitical impact he said that “It is also clear because Greece now has an official place in which she determines what she thinks is her continental shelf. It’s something that hadn’t happened until yesterday. “

And continued: ‘The reaction of the Turks was expected. What is a qualitative difference and credited to our government is that Greece was not saying anything while Turkey was saying different things. What happened is that Greece said. Any differences will be resolved where they can be resolved. It will be Hague, it will be the agreements, it will be other things … The given is that Greece has a clear imprinted position. “

Asked if Athens is afraid of some intervention by Donald Trump, Mr. Voridis replied “I don’t consider it possible.”

For her issues migratory policythe minister said: “I met yesterday with Vasilis Kikilia as we have common strategic goals. Among the objectives of overall government policy is the effective border guard and prevent illegal immigration. And this is a battle that the port gives us every day. “

In fact, he noted that “In the first 4 months of over 150 traffickers have been arrested. They capture over one day. ”

For them irregular immigrants and the bill coming; The minister said that “They are illegal, it is not that they have forgotten some paper, they are illegally entering, violating our law on legal entry into the country. The answer for this, fortunately is a European policy and Europe has moved to the positions that Greece has always supported. The positions are that we need to develop and broaden our return system. When one is not legally in Greece, either he has no asylum or a residence permit, he must be returned either to place of origin of his, either in the country from which he came from, if she is a Safe country. We need to enhance the whole return mechanism and is one of the key jobs we have to do. Yesterday we finished a first processing on the law on returns. We make the law stricter. One issue is the year and another Issue is the most effective application of administrative measures. It means that must be led to detention the illegal, in order to removed. THE Administrative restriction can take up to 18 months. We make this whole system stricter at a legal level. He has a lot of work. ”