Panagiotopoulos: Migration is also a security issue
Migration and Asylum Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos expressed his satisfaction on the fact that the majority of the EU state members are aligned with Greece's long-established positions regarding the importance of protecting the European borders, as well as the view that migration is also a security matter, during the informal meeting of justice and home affairs ministers in Warsaw on Thursday.

Migration and Asylum Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos expressed his satisfaction on the fact that the majority of the EU state members are aligned with Greece's long-established positions regarding the importance of protecting the European borders, as well as the view that migration is also a security matter, during the informal meeting of justice and home affairs ministers in Warsaw on Thursday.
Referring to the importance of returns to third countries for the smooth operation of the asylum system in EU, Panagiotopoulos underlined that "Greece will support all the necessary changes in order to improve and accelerate the return procedures". In parallel, he noted that "third countries consider the lack of initiatives and EU's difficult coordination as a weakness"
In order to reverse this picture, he called on all his counterparts to proceed with common actions, both in the context of the external dimension of migration, as well as in the sector of political and military preparedness.
On the sidelines of the informal meeting, Panagiotopoulos had a trilateral meeting with his counterparts from Ireland and Lithuania, as well as bilateral meetings with his counterparts from the Netherlands, Denmark and Bulgaria.
Panagiotopoulos was accompanied by the general secretary of Migration Policy Manos Logothetis.
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