Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer. This is the Prime Minister's first bilateral visit to a European capital during the new European period and before the first meeting of the European Council on 17-18 October.

"It is with great pleasure that I am back in Vienna for a meeting that confirms the excellent relations between our two countries and our very close personal relations," Mitsotakis said.

On the agenda of the meeting were issues of defence, energy, and the issues of the two wars, those of Ukraine and the Middle East.

The main issue was migration. "I would like to thank Austria for the support it has given to Greece's long-standing demand for more European funding and for the guarding of the European Union's land borders," the Prime Minister said, adding that "Greece is building a deterrent barrier on its border with Turkey. It will continue to build it, but it makes perfect sense that this barrier does not only protect the Greek border; it protects the European border, and it must receive European funding."

On migration, following a question, Kyriakos Mitsotakis further stated that the implementation of the pact on migration and asylum should be a priority and that Greece will not accept to bear a disproportionate burden because it is located at the external borders of the EU. He said that Europe's support for Greece to manage the people who eventually arrive in our country should continue and that the relevant resources at the moment are not certain to be sufficient or if they will be sufficient in the future.

In addition, he said that it is not our job to tell any member state what kind of subsidy social policy it should follow and that it would be a mistake to move towards ad hoc exceptions to the Schengen Treaty.