Migration Ministry signs new agreement to cut costs on asylum seekers services

Migration and Asylum Minister Thanos Plevris and Panagiotis Stampoulidis, Executive Director of Greece’s Growthfund, signed connected Monday a caller statement connected tenders for services related to migrants. This is portion of broader efforts to trim ministry expenditure.

The Migration Ministry expects wide spending to driblet by 30%, from €400 cardinal to €288 million, done restructuring the benefits system and rationalising expenses. Tenders are expected to lend to this reduction.

Referring to the HELIOS lodging programme, Plevris said that backing antecedently provided arsenic rent subsidies to asylum applicants ‘will beryllium directed towards vocation training and Greek connection courses’.

The curate added that migrants seeking asylum who take to stay successful Greece “will beryllium provided with work options and integration done employment, not subsidies”. ‘This is our approach: whoever is granted asylum successful Greece will nary longer unrecorded connected subsidies astatine the disbursal of European and Greek taxpayers. They will beryllium fixed the accidental to work; therefore, homes presently located successful the centre of Athens will beryllium released onto the market,” Plevris said.

Independent lodging facilities will beryllium moved extracurricular cardinal Athens and fiscal support for those granted asylum will beryllium reduced by up to 50%, covering lone indispensable needs under the European Union framework.

The tenders screen nutrient and each services astatine migrant facilities, including security, cleanliness and maintenance. Stampoulidis said that the Growth Fund will supply technical expertise successful implementing analyzable tenders under the agreement.

[AMNA]