Greece to EU: Don’t Let Countries Use Migrants as Leverage

Greece to EU: Don’t Let Countries Use Migrants as Leverage
A migrant stands next to their makeshift tent outside the perimeter of the overcrowded Moria refugee camp on the northeastern Aegean island of Lesbos, Greece, on March 11, 2020. Aggelos Barai/AP Photo
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ATHENS, Greece—Greece’s prime minister says Europe should be “very, very strict” when dealing with countries that he said are seeking to use migrants and refugees as a means of pressuring the European Union.

Speaking Friday during a meeting in Athens with the head of the European border agency Frontex, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on neighboring Turkey to do more to prevent people from attempting to cross the Greek border illegally from their shores.