1. Was taking on the integration of refugees, including children, your personal choice or are you on a mandated mission?
My personal choice is social solidarity. For the portfolio the choice is the prime minister's.
2. What is your personal stake in the political position of responsibility that you have assumed?
The link between staying in the country and education and work.
3. You belong to a political space that is not considered particularly friendly to immigrants/refugees, but you have taken on the task of integrating them. Has this ever caused you any difficulties?
Not at all. My political space aims at real integration and not at chaos.
4. What does it practically mean to integrate a refugee child into our society? Do we have something to gain as a country and what?
The best interests of children and taking away the weapons from organized crime targeting the young.
5. The current government has adopted a tough discourse on the refugee issue and at the same time has made the issue of unaccompanied minor refugee children a national priority. Contradiction?
No contradiction. No tough talk. We are simply not supposedly "humanitarians".
6. How close are we to achieving the goal of "no child left alone"?
The enemy of the good is the best.
7. Our system protects children until their 18th birthday and then releases them into the street the next day. Does childhood end so abruptly?
Of course not. That's why we create programs for a smooth transition to adulthood.
8. What do you think is better, to send all unaccompanied minors to other countries or to create an exemplary reception and integration in Greece?
The latter.
9. We have about 2,000 stable accommodation places. Today, the structures are almost full. Do we need to increase the number of accommodation places?
Each time we operate according to our needs.
10. And finally, to get out of the refugee problem. In your opinion, what is the most serious political problem in the times we live in?
Populism, demagoguery, character assassination, distortion of reality.