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As Europe braces itself for a new wave of mass migration in the wake of the United States and NATO’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Greece’s conservative-leaning government has vowed not to let their country act as a gateway for migrants headed for Western Europe’s welfare states, as it did during the 2015 migrant crisis.
While addressing the parliament last week amid an increasingly chaotic situation in Afghanistan, Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarakis said: “Greece will not accept, as in the period 2015-19, to be the gateway to Europe for illegal migration flows, in violation of Article 31 of the Geneva Convention.”
During the parliamentary discussion which saw politicians debate a piece of legislation which, if passed, would accelerate deportation procedures, Mitarakis stressed that under the direction of the center-right New Democracy party, Greece has managed to regain control of immigration and as a result its international credibility too.
