With Europe facing a migration crisis, we talk to Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greece’s European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship. In Athens, he stresses that no country can hope to solve the problems on its own — it has to be done, as always, communally.

Efi Koutsokosta, euronews: “Greece has been sinking under a great weight of migrants and refugees this summer — in the centre of Athens and many islands — tragic images. Who is to blame? The overwhelmed Greek government? Where is the EU?”

Dimitris Avramopoulos, Greece’s EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship: “Nobody is to blame, we share joint responsibility. The fact that some member states don’t implement the common migration policy is one of the reasons we have witnessed this, not only in Greece but also in other parts of Europe. We are ready to give around 445 million euros to Greece if the country fulfils the conditions that we decided jointly, which means it has to form an action plan,