Greek PM after EU Council meeting – ‘Turkey must choose between sincere collaboration and provocation’

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday said his government was satisfied over the EU’s decision to issue explicit instructions to Turkey to adhere to a 2016 agreement regarding illegal migration of third country nationals from the latter attempting to enter the Union – a problem that over the past several years has brought Greece on the frontline of the problem.

Mitsotakis spoke at a press briefing after the end of an EU summit in Brussels on Friday.

He added that he also called on the European Council and European Commission to propose specific legal changes, measures and funding for a more efficient guarding of Europe’s external borders.

Both Greece and Cyprus, he added, briefed the EU Council on the latest developments in the eastern Mediterranean region, before adding: “Turkey must choose between two paths, one being of sincere collaboration and the other of provocation.”