As Greece continues to struggle to accommodate the tens of thousands of illegal immigrants who’ve recently have made their way from Turkey, its government said that it would call on the EU to impose sanctions on member states who refuse to accept a portion of the new arrivals.
The Greek government contends that countries like Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, who continue to reject “mandatory” migrant relocation quotas, place an unfair burden on EU states like Greece, Italy, and Spain.
In a statement given on Friday, Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, “I will say this clearly: I will raise the issue of specific sanctions for European countries that refuse to take part in a fair distribution of refugees on a European level.”
Mitsotakis then added: “It is an act of hypocrisy. You cannot enjoy the benefits of (border-free travel and trade) and not accept 1,000 or 2,000 refugees as part of EU management of the issue.”
Over the summer, Greece saw a drastic spike in migrant arrivals from Turkey. In August, Greece saw close to 7,000 migrants arrive by boat, the highest number since 2016.
The number of illegal migrant arrivals, which once averaged 60 per day, has now reached an average of 278 per day. This year alone, nearly 22,000 migrants are believed to have landed in Greece.
As a result of the surge in migration, the reception centers on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios have been overwhelmed.
Moria, the reception center on Lesbos, was originally designed to hold 3,000 migrants. Today, it’s currently hosting over 13,000.
On other islands, such as Samos, the migration situation is even more severe. One reception center designed to hold 650 people now hosts over 4,000, Kathimerini reports.
Close to 23,000 migrants are thought to be living on the different Greek islands throughout the Aegean, with around 42 percent coming from Afghanistan.
Last week, the EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos along with the German interior minister Horst Seehofer traveled to Turkey and Greece to see if something could be done to salvage the 2016 EU-Turkey migration agreement.
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This is sick. this so called CONservative prime minister Mitsotakis have a nerve to say europe is a nation of immigrants and force countries like Poland and Hungary to accept migrant when their poll said over 85% of the people want immigration to be either kept at the same level or reduced yet Mitsotakis is only part of the 12 percent that want an increase of immigrants. even the former leftist leader alexis tispias from Syriza havent let that much immigrants in greece and wouldn’t go as far as to sanctioning members for not taking migrants. Greek new democracy had a majority government for crying out loud yet still caving to Syriza trudope madness. it is undrstandable for CONservatives to cave to leftism when they had a miniority government, but a majority government is unacceptable. Mititakis is like Trudeau in many ways. as soon as Syriza wins again lets hope for a Syriza/golden dawn/communist party coalition so Greece can rid of immigration austerity and bring back tough borders.
My homage to King Sobieski…and a little wishful thinking.
In Solidarity with EU “self-declared patriots” betrayed by their own governments, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic invaded Western Europe on two broad fronts early this morning.
The threat posed by 4 new muslim nuclear powers in about 10 years, Iran, France, Germany and Britain, was too great to ignore any longer.
Cheer on the Christian Warsaw Pact!
German Chancellor Angela Merkel retreated to Berchtesgaden with her muslim refugee sycophants chanting, Allahu Akbar! Sieg Heil!
France is expected to surrender out of hand.
Britain threatens to flood the English Chunnel to stop them.
Italy and Greece will join the winning side, as usual. Update at 11PM.