PM: SYRIZA must be clear about fence

Police border guards patrol along a border wall near the town of Feres, along the Evros River which forms the the frontier between Greece and Turkey. [Petros Giannakouris/AP]

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called on SYRIZA to take a clear stance about the the construction of the fence on the Evros land border with Turkey. 

"The opposition must take a stand: Will it tear down the fence by returning to open border logic? There is no room for half-truths here," Mitsotakis said in Evros on Friday, and in the wake of a recent amendment tabled by SYRIZA MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis for the EU to stop the financing of such fences.

The PM also expressed regret "because there are political forces that oppose the fence and go as far as tabling an amendment not to fund the artificial embankment."

"In other words, Europe should not pay for the project, but you, the taxpayers, should pay for it," he noted.

He reiterated emphatically what he had said on Thursday, namely that the fence will be completed with or without EU funding.

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