Voloudaki: Immediate decongestion of Crete through transfers already underway to the mainland

Speaking to ERTNews astir the concern successful Crete and the government’s actions to easiness the unit connected the island, Deputy Minister of Migration and Asylum Sevi Voloudaki stressed that the contiguous precedence is the relocation of caller arrivals to facilities connected the mainland.

Since Monday, astir 200 radical per time person already been transferred—136 from Chania, 166 from Heraklion, and 116 from Rethymno—while readying continues, with the extremity of moving different 350 radical from Crete by the weekend. “The decongestion of Crete begins with circumstantial transfers that are already taking place,” she said.

She added that, astatine the nationalist level, migration flows person decreased by 30% compared to past year, portion successful the Eastern Aegean islands the simplification reaches astir 40%, which demonstrates the effectiveness of the government’s strategy.

Referring to the enactment of the Coast Guard, she underlined that “its men and women are connected the beforehand enactment each day, facing wartime conditions successful the Aegean successful bid to support maritime borders and prevention quality lives.”

The Deputy Minister besides noted that “when determination are geopolitical developments and unfastened vigor issues, specified arsenic the Chevron lawsuit and the amerciable Turkey-Libya memorandum, smugglers unreserved to exploit them, intensifying the pressures.”

Finally, Voloudaki emphasized that “migration is simply a dynamic phenomenon, which is wherefore the Ministry continually reprograms and revises its strategy according to existent conditions, truthful that we tin supply realistic and applicable solutions.”