Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrives for a European Council summit in Brussels, Belgium, 20 March 2025. Competitiveness, the latest developments in Ukraine and the European defense policy will be discussed by EU leaders at the summit. EPA-EFE/OLIVIER MATTHYS "We're looking forward with great eagerness to the new list of safe countries of origin, so that our country can move faster in this direction," Mitsotakis said on his arrival at an EU leaders' summit in Brussels.
Migration is one of the issues on the leaders' agenda, along with Ukraine and defence.
Greece was at the frontline of a migration crisis in 2015-2016, when more than one million people crossed into its territory by sea, looking to move further north in Europe.
Flows have declined since but illegal migration into the EU remains a hot political topicacross Europe.
(Reporting by Angeliki KoutantouEditing by Gareth Jones)