Dimitris Kairides, the Minister of Immigration and Asylum, characterized the passage of the EU’s Migration and Asylum Pact in his statement to APE-MBE as a cut-off for the management of immigration.

“After three years of hard negotiations, today the European Union Migration and Asylum Pact by the European Parliament. This is a major breakthrough and a very important step towards a common, and therefore more effective, management of the migration challenges of our time”, the minister points out while adding:

“The Greek government, from the very beginning, supported this effort and today we welcome its positive outcome. This is undoubtedly a historic day for European unification, on a critical issue around which some have preferred division to consensus. Today we proved that the European peoples can do better together.”