Migrants attempt to enter Greece from Turkey in March 2020.Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Greece’s Mitsotakis: EU needs new tools to fight back against weaponized migration – POLITICO

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Kyriakos Mitsotakis is the prime minister of Greece.

Europe’s security environment has fundamentally changed.

Alongside conventional military threats and cyberattacks, the EU is increasingly confronted with a more insidious form of hybrid pressure: the deliberate instrumentalization of migration by state and nonstate actors seeking to test Europe’s resilience, undermine its cohesion and extract political concessions.