2023-09-27 13:49:27
Greece’s conservative government is working on a plan to integrate hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants to fill labor shortages in the agriculture, construction and tourism sectors, ministry officials said.
Like other European countries, during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Greece faced an exodus of workers from the labor force, both native and legal immigrants, many of whom never returned.
Migration Minister Dimitris Kyridis told state broadcaster ERT that the new proposal would look at allowing the 300,000 migrants estimated to be living illegally in Greece to work in certain sectors.
“We need to see what we can do with the population we already have in our country without creating more magnets for others to come illegally,” Kyridis said.
He did not provide further details about the project, which is still in its early stages. Kyridis is expected to formally outline the initiative at a cabinet meeting next month, a migration ministry official told Archyde.com.
Greece has taken a tougher stance on immigration since Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was first elected in 2019, hiring more border guards and increasing patrols at land and sea borders to prevent new arrivals.
The airline has granted compensation to a child who complained that he was not given a seat on a SpiceJet flight
The country of 11 million attracts thousands of migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe in search of work and a better life, many of whom work illegally for years, mostly on farms, in construction or as domestic workers.
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