Greece’s Deputy Defence Minister Dimitris Vitsas confessed that most of the refugees currently trapped in Greece would stay in the country up to 2 years, in an interview to newspaper Financial Times. Vitsas estimates that a lot of them will stay in Greece permanently, while adding that Turkey would not accept illegal immigrants back, something he considered ‘wrong’, as he claimed migrants should be the first to be readmitted to Turkey. Vitsas underlined that refugee and illegal migrant flows would rise as the weather clear up in Spring and Summer. On the dramatic conditions at the Idomeni camp he said that many of the people refusing to leave and be relocated to the other 20 centres ready to accept them, were refusing with the hope that the borders to the north would open after the March 17 EU summit. He expressed his disappointment on the unwillingness of other European countries to take in any refugees. ’Some countries are going down the path of xenophobia’, said the politician.