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Greece attacked over asylum seeker treatment
13.11.2004
The United Nations has accused Greece of failing to provide adequate protection for asylum seekers. Despite receiving more than 8,000 asylum requests, Greece has reception centres that can cope with no more than 1,000 people in any given year. Urging Greece to expand refugee centres, the local representative of the United Nations High Commiss...
Minorities to get equal footing
26.10.2004
Government drafts law to end discrimination against immigrants, disabled people and others. The government is planning legislative action to ensure that discrimination on grounds of race, sex, religion, disability or nationality is banished from the workplace and the social security system, sources told Kathimerini. If eventually pass...
Greece rethinks immigration policy
20.10.2004
Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis yesterday called for a complete redrawing of Greece’s immigration policy, telling senior cabinet ministers that extant legislation is far from satisfactory. Over the past 13 years, particularly after the Albanian border opened in 1991, up to a million economic migrants entered Greece — mostly illegally. Since...
Greek flag is a hot potato
20.10.2004
In yet another incident of the sort, pupils at a Thessaloniki high school refused to attend lessons yesterday as a protest against an Albanian classmate carrying the Greek flag on behalf of the school in the October 28 parade. Students at the school, in the Harilaou suburb of Thessaloniki, said they would not take part in celebrations unless...
Greek-Turkish initiative promotes
19.10.2004
The mass media and younger generations have a role to play in improving relations between the people of Greece and Turkey and promoting their understanding of each other, according to members of the Institute "Nikos Poulantzas" and the Turkish Foundation of Cinema and Audiovisual Culture (TURSAK), who held a joint press conference on Friday. ...
Erdogan on the Greek-Turkish Relations
18.10.2004
Optimistic that the Greek-Turkish relations will improve appeared Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in an interview with the Greek state-run television station NET, while he also spoke about a relationship of trust with the Greek Prime Minister. The Cyprus issue, the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Chalki Theology School and the prop...
Foreign Minister: Greece united on Turkish entry
18.10.2004
Cyprus wants Ankara pledge Foreign Minister Petros Molyviatis argued there was a national consensus in Greece favoring the entry of Turkey into the EU while his Cypriot counterpart George Iacovou said Cyprus would definitely not veto Turkey's accession talks if it made certain guarantees, in two interviews published yesterday. "Have...
Abolition of the Visa Requirement for the Two-Day Visits of Turks to Greece
15.10.2004
Evros Prefect Nikos Zabounidis with a letter to Deputy Foreign Minister Ioannis Valinakis requests the abolition of the visa requirement for the Turks who want to make two-day visits to Greece. Mr. Zabounidis in his letter mentions that it has been established from the visits exchanged by the Greek and Turkish local administration representa...
Prime Minister Karamanlis: We are going to put into action the minority programme
10.10.2004
The Greek prime minister Kostas Karamanlis declared that the minority programme, which was announced before the parliamentary elections will be put into action. He assured this during a press conference on the occasion of the International Fair of Thessaloniki, where he also talked about the Turkish minority of Western Thrace. The progress i...
ECRI - Third report on Greece
08.06.2004
Adopted on 5 December 2003 and made public on 8 June 2004 Foreword The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) was established by the Council of Europe. It is an independent human rights monitoring body specialised in questions relating to racism and intolerance. It is composed of independent and impartial members, wh...
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