Greece's prime minister promised Friday to extend a wall across all of the country's land border with Turkey as he campaigned for the country's general election.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who called the May 21 election earlier this week, is expected later in the day to sign his center-right government’s decision to nearly double the length of the existing steel border wall over the next year.
Border security remains a high-profile issue in Greece due to long-standing disputes with Turkey and a mass migration of refugees and migrants into the European Union during 2015-16 that largely was triggered by war in Syria and Iraq. “I would like to express my regret that there are political forces in Greece today that are fighting this project,” Mitsotakis told supporters during his campaign stop in Orestiada, a town near the Greece-Turkey border.
Syriza officials accused the government of misrepresenting the opposition’s position, adding that the EU’s executive commission already ruled out providing direct funding for border walls.
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