European Union is currently drafting emergency plans for Greece and other countries of the Balkan Corridor so that a humanitarian crisis is avoided, said on Monday EU spokesperson Mina Andreeva.

According to Andreeva, the drafting of the emergency plan for the refugees problem in Greece was a European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker’s request to the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during their meeting in Brussels on February 17.

Asked by journalist of Proto Thema on the emergency plan, Mrs. Andreeva said that president Juncker had a private meeting with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras asking him to prepare an emergency plan. The spokesperson emphasized that the Commission have helped Greece to complete the plan.

Andreeva noted that Greece has already completed the report on the needs for the refugees in cooperation with the European Commission.

As she said, the European Commission is closely monitoring the conditions and prepares emergency plans to assist Greece and the other countries of the so called Balkan Route adding that the Commission is examining the current and future needs of refugees reception, manpower, financing as well as material support.