Greece is quickly suspending asylum functions from migrants who attain the nation by sea from North Africa. After two days of debate, the parliament in Athens voted to approve the measure on Friday.
According to an official parliamentary depend, 177 members of parliament (MPs) voted in favour of the change and 74 towards.
The authorities stated that Athens had knowledgeable the European Commission of the transfer.
The measure is primarily supposed as a deterrent and can initially apply for 3 months.
The conservative authorities stated that arriving migrants can be detained and returned to their international locations of origin or provenance as rapidly as attainable.
“The route to Greece will be closed, that is the message to the smugglers,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stated through the parliamentary debate.
However, repatriations aren’t simple to implement as a result of some international locations of origin aren’t cooperating in taking again their nationals.
The left-wing opposition in Greece sees the transfer as a violation of human rights.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) additionally expressed concern. “The right to seek asylum is a fundamental human right, enshrined in international, European and national law, and applies to everyone regardless of how or where they arrive in a country,” the group stated in a press release.
In current weeks, there was a pointy enhance within the variety of migrants leaving Libya and arriving on the island of Crete. According to the migrants, smugglers cost as much as €5,000 ($5,843) for the damaging 300-kilometre crossing.
Source: www.anews.com.tr