“People need to know that even in the coming years, due to the volatility of the countries of the Middle East and Africa with civil strife and warring situations, we have and will have migratory flows to Europe. This is not going to stop, “said Minister of Maritime and Island Policy, Vassilis Kikilias, in an interview with” Mega Society Time “with Jordan Hassapopoulos and Anthi Voulgaris.

“Our country as well as the neighboring countries Italy, Malta and the rest of Europe, we must prepare for this time. At a time when security is not given and must be claimed through organized policies. Politics that respect human rights but at the same time safeguard the one who stays in Attica Square and the shopkeeper, and not to show him with his finger as a “fascist” when he wants a better life for him and his children in his neighborhood, Kikilia.

Referring to the shift of flows in the Mediterranean, the Minister noted:
“At the moment, in Crete we have the result of a policy in North Africa and more specifically, in eastern and western Libya. A European Union policy, which in the Syrian war gave Erdogan billions to remain Syrian refugees in Turkey. Now, either because of the neighborhood or because of a copy, the same thing is trying to blackmail Happere and East Libya. So the flows have been transferred to a 200 -nautical business resort in the open sea, with the images we have seen in recent weeks and especially in recent days in Crete. “

And he continued: “Crete had no structures. In my opinion, closed structures are properly created. It is a large island, it is a flagship of our tourism, it is geostrategic and geopolitical at a critical point, it joins the Aegean and below the Mediterranean. It had no structures for immigrants and now, rightly, closed – I stress – closed structures. Because once one can not get asylum, anymore, as before – and we will communicate it to everyone – they will soon know those who give money to these modern smugglers – because they are smuggling of human souls, drugs, weapons, trafficking and so on. – That they can no longer pass from Crete, then leave inland and then go to northern Europe. “