‘We don’t have a mafia state, we have a stupid state’

Attempts to secure financing for some refugees enrolled in the Ktizo scheme have come to nothing, leaving these people in the lurch, MP heard on Tuesday.

In April 2023 the government launched Ktizo, a €130 million long-term project to provide “respectable living conditions” on refugee estates. The scheme involves giving incentives to tenants to relocate to new housing.

There are 358 refugee apartment buildings across the government-controlled areas. Living conditions in some of them have been described as dangerous...