Greece Recalls Ambassador to Vienna in Row over Worsening Migrant Issue

PeopleDiplomats ♦ Published: February 25, 2016; 19:45 ♦ (Vindobona)

By decision of Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, Greece’s Ambassador to Vienna, H. E. Mrs. Chryssoula Aliferi, is being called to Athens for consultations aimed at "safeguarding the relations" between the states and peoples of Greece and Austria.

Greek's Ambassador to Vienna H. E. Mrs. Chryssoula Aliferi / Picture: © Flickr / IAEA

By decision of the Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, Greece’s Ambassador to Vienna has been withdrawn in a sign of the mounting acrimony between Austria and Greece over the EU's refugee policies.

Greece’s foreign ministry accused the Austrian government in a statement as follows: "It is clear that the major problems of the European Union cannot be confronted via…