
Fact Check: Mitsotakis ‘vast majority’ of new arrivals to Greece ‘economic migrants not refugees’
Greek Prime Minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis, leader of the governing Nea Dimokratia party, told the Greek parliament on Friday 4 October 2019 that: ‘We should acknowledge that on the basis of real data, the problem that we are now dealing with is one of migration not so much of refugees.’ He continued: ‘The vast majority of people currently coming to Greece are economic migrants, not refugees,’ adding that: ‘In 2015 Syrians made up around 75 percent of arrivals, whereas today th