PM Samaras in Malta: Common European front to deal with immigration

Europe must devise a common policy to deal with illegal immigration, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said in Malta on Monday, following his meeting with his Maltese counterpart Joseph Muscat.

Samaras noted the importance of southern European countries forming a common front, especially for Greece, "as unemployment is 27 percent and we have a lot of unemployed and many illegal immigrants, something that cannot continue."

Greece is doing anything it can, he noted, going through tough times, to "achieve fiscal health and significant infrastructural changes that will bring Greece back to economic normalcy."

Muscat also referred to a common front to face illegal immigration and referred to the successive presidencies of the EU by Greece and Italy in 2014.

"There is no magical solution," he said, "but we are showing results, and this issue cannot be left on its own or us hope that winter is coming and traffic will change."