Greece managed refugee crisis with dignity, says migration minister

Greece managed the refugee crisis with dignity and continues the efforts to improve the living conditions of refugees and facilitate their integration, Greek Migration Policy Minister Yannis Mouzalas told Xinhua in a recent interview in Athens.

Two years after the start of the worst refugee crisis Europe faced in decades, the Greek official looked back to the Herculean task the debt-laden country achieved and the mistakes done, voicing determination to deal with the issues arising more effectively in the future.

Greece was at the frontline of the crisis. More than one million people crossed the Aegean Sea and continued their journey to central Europe from early 2015 until the closure of the Balkan corridor in the winter of 2016. The images of people sleeping in the open with inadequate water and food in the first months shocked the world. Athens and other European...