Kairidis: Migration flows record significant drop in October
Migration and Asylum Minister Dimitris Kairidis, speaking to the Standing Special European Affairs Parliament Committee on Tuesday, referred to the significant reduction in the migration flows observed in October 2023 in comparison with the three previous months.
"We live in a period of declining flows, not increasing. There are no flows from Evros River. Nobody passes from Evros. The flows in the northern Aegean, in the islands of Samos and Lesvos have dropped by approximately 70 percent," Kairidis said.
He explained that the reduction of the flows to Greece is due to the alertness of the coast guard as well as to broader inititatives such as the cooperation we seek with Turkiye. Through this cooperation we will be able to address the problem better".
"I strongly believe that we can address legally the illegal migration, that we can address the problem in a European way. We do not need to go to extra institutional and anti-European solutions and this is the major wager," Kairidis concluded.