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Greek Cabinet Ministers Dismiss International Justice in Controversial Remarks
Adonis Georgiadis and Thanos Plevris are under fire from the Greek main opposition party, PASOK. Illustration: Greek Reporter Two Greek cabinet ministers caused a stir by criticizing, through social media, international courts and human rights organizations over the weekend. In a post Saturday on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis described Amnesty International and the International Court of Justic…
The decisions of European and international courts regarding immigration "make deportation decisions difficult, they counteract the requirement of states to guard their borders," writes the Minister of Immigration and Asylum.
Opposition slams ministers’ comments on international law
Socialist PASOK, Greece’s main opposition party, on Monday sharply criticized senior government ministers for comments attacking international courts and human rights organizations, accusing them of undermining the country’s commitment to the rules-based international order and raising questions about the administration’s stance on international law.
Their absolute and clear disdain for Amnesty International and the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the main judicial body of the UN, of which Greece is a founding member, was expressed by Adonis Georgiadis and Thanos Plevris, with the former saying that "no one should pay any attention to them" because they are "leftists" and the latter cynically confessing that the criticism he receives for various legislative texts, such as the su…
Adonis Georgiadis noted that there is a European initiative regarding the decisions of the International Court of Justice on migration - He calls for the legalization of pushbacks
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