Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is in Brussels to attend the European Council meeting on Thursday, June 26, after he attended the NATO Summit in Hague.

Mitsotakis outlined the Greek government’s stance during the NATO Summit in Hague, stating that he would raise the issue of the illegal Turkey-Libya memorandum and the increasing migration flows from Libya with his European counterparts.

Athens aims to have the council’s conclusions reiterate the exact language used by EU leaders in December 2019, when they declared that the memorandum was illegal, not recognized by the European Union, and therefore incapable of producing any legal effects.

Earlier on Wednesday, during a presser after the conclusion of the NATO Summit in Hague, the Greek premier stated he would raise the issue of “the unacceptable, illegal, and invalid Turkey-Libya memorandum.”

He added that Greece hoped to have the December 2019 conclusions reiterated verbatim at the European Council in its final document that stipulated the memorandum was illegal, not recognized by the EU, and thus cannot produce any legal outcome.”

In addition, he emphasized that the second serious matter of migration flows from Libya would also be brought up for discussion.

The Prime Minister sent a clear message to traffickers that Greece “is not an open field without fences,” adding that he has already raised the issue with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who in turn addressed it in a letter to EU leaders.