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"Madam President, thank you for the debate. This is extremely important and I have no doubt we will come back to it.
Greece needs to do a few urgent things. It needs to continue to work on the action plan to establish proper reception conditions where people can be screened, registered and have their cases tried as quickly as possible. There needs to be humanitarian assistance to those people who are now in the Evros region and who are in a very difficult situation, especially children and other vulnerable groups.
There needs to be better protection of the border and a system where people can be returned after a proper procedure if they have been found not to be in need of international protection, and they need to reform the administrative systems so that all the money available is put to proper use. There are huge amounts of money available – hundreds of millions of euros – but they need to be used by the Greek authorities. I am convinced that a lot of things can be done in order to speed up the procedures and the bureaucracy here.
In all these issues there has been progress, but there needs to be more, and in all these issues we will continue to assist Greece. We are assisting with money, as I said. The EASO is there, willing to help and work hand in hand with the Greek authorities and also on further implementation of the action plan. Some of you mentioned the staffing, which is also really acute.
Frontex is there, Europol is there to help fight the trafficking some of you mentioned. Experts from Member States and from the Commission are available and imported organisations are there to help: the IOM, UNHCR, and so on.
We are also trying to support Greece in its efforts to negotiate with Turkey so that Turkey can take more responsibility. We are trying to assist Turkey on administrative reforms and with money so that they can take some responsibility.
So progress is being made. We are willing to assist. Nobody denies the enormous difficulties that Greece is facing today. The economic situation is very difficult. Lots of people in Greece are suffering today, we are aware of that. We also know that Greece, because of its geographical situation – and nothing can change this – is very much open to migratory flows that will then seek to come further into Europe.
So it is a European problem, and we in the Commission and the Council will continue to help and will work hand in hand. Nobody expects changes to come over a weekend. It will take time, but there needs to be steady progress, and this can only happen in partnership. But the main responsibility to make sure that everything is in place is in the hands of the Greek authorities. That has to be clear.
So thank you very much for this debate. Thank you for your support and understanding on this, and I am sure we will come back to this issue very soon."@en1
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