Government Spokesman Cites 94% Drop in Migrant Arrivals Since 2015 in Rebuttal to Tsipras

Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis presented a comparison of Greece's migration figures under the current government versus the 2015-2019 period under former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, in a video posted to TikTok responding to Mr. Tsipras's recent speech and tour of Lesbos. Citing official data, Mr. Marinakis said approximately 900,000 refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Greece in 2015, leaving islands in the northern Aegean in what he described as a state of "suffocation." He ...

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