The Greek Minister for Migration and Asylum, Notis Mitarachi, once again defended his government’s management of the country’s external borders and rejected allegations of regular pushbacks and violence against migrants by the Greek coast guard, on Monday 27 June in the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties (LIBE).
Invited by the LIBE Committee to speak, after the latter had expressed its concern to Commissioner Ylva Johansson in a letter revealed by Politico, the...