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Plevris Pledges Tough Stance at Migration Ministry Handover
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A timely question was addressed by New Left MP Nasos Iliopoulos to the new Minister of Immigration and Asylum, Thanos Plevris, regarding his extremely racist statements in a public speech in 2011, at an event of the far-right magazine Patria, that “border security cannot exist if there are no casualties.” “Will immigration policy in your time be based on the logic of dead immigrants and hells, which are completely incompatible with the European …
The effectiveness of asylum granting, cooperation with third countries and the coordination of member states for the distribution of migration flows are of concern to European governments. More...
Plevris pledges tough stance at Migration Ministry handover
Unsuccessful asylum seekers can either “return to their country or go to jail,” Migration and Asylum Minister Thanos Plevris has said at the handover ceremony at his new ministry, following the resignation of Makis Voridis amid his alleged involvement in the OPEKEPE case.
"We will continue with the instructions we have received from the Prime Minister," said Plevris, noting that the government wanted to adopt this line from 2019, "but at that time Europe was not ready."
Thanos Plevris immediately set the tone for the policy he will follow on immigration, faithful to his far-right ideology.
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