(Kathimerini) French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has praised the “Greek model” of migration control and vowed France’s support in bolstering border security when it assumes the European Union’s six-month rotating presidency on January 1.
“We ask other southern EU countries to do what the Greeks have done to control our external borders better and other countries to agree to a system of solidarity,” Darmanin said during a visit to a controvesial migrant camp on the eastern Aegean island of Samos on Sunday, praising the new facility.
The Samos camp is a controlled facility with watchtowers and barbed wire, where the gates are locked at night and migrants have to be given permission to leave the premises.
