Greek PM Mitsotakis calls for Plan B to tackle migration

Arriving at his first European Council summit in Brussels on Thursday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that Greece and the European Union should not be held hostage to Turkey over migration and should have a "Plan B" in place to respond to a possible new refugee crisis. 

"The migratory flows over the past months have increased substantially," he said, saying the issue "needs to be addressed at a European level." 

"Greece and Europe cannot be blackmailed by Turkey on this issue and the EU needs to demonstrate much more solidarity vis-a-vis Greece in managing this issue, in coming up with a new migration and asylum package but also coming up with an emergency Plan B in case the current crisis turns into an emergency," Mitsotakis told reporters ahead of a European Council summit in Brussels. 

Although Brexit and Turkey's offensive in northeastern Syria...