PM on North Macedonia: ‘Getting closer to Europe means respecting the European acquis’

"You need a big fence and you also need a big door," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis commented in an interview for the British podcast "The Rest is Politics."

"By big fence, I mean you protect your borders. I am unapologetic about this. But at the same time, we also need legal pathways to migration," the prime minister added, addressing UK journalists Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, who traveled to Athens to record the episode.

Campbell, in a stark comment on recent British migration policies, added, "As far as I'm aware you don't have a plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda…" with Mitsotakis responding, "No, that is not what we have in mind."

"We will make it difficult for people to enter Greece. I am being very, very clear. We have worked with Turkey reasonably well over the past months. But at the same time, we also need legal pathways to...