Athens News Agency: News in English, 05-11-14
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[01] Greece now has 'integrated' policy on immigration
[01] Greece now has 'integrated' policy on immigration
Greece has 'integrated' policy on immigration
Greece now had an integrated policy on immigration, since a bill
prepared by Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos was passed by
Parliament, government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos said on
Monday.
"This mainly hinges on the fact that we know which immigrants come to
Greece and for what purpose, that immigrants can fully exercise their
rights, that they are insured and secure, while the procedures for the
issue of residence permits have been simplified and delays reduced to a
minimum, avoiding the intercession of any sort of middle-men," he
added.
The spokesman pointed out that the immigration services had been housed
in a new building in the central Athens district of Rouf and had
up-to-date IT systems to solve procedural problems.
He also stressed the creation of the new category of 'long-term
residents' who had lived in Greece for more than five years and were on
the verge of acquiring Greek nationality, if they so wished, under the
updated national code voted by the government in 2004.
Asked whether the passage of the new law might be linked to the
torching of 20 cars, Roussopoulos said the incident were probably not
linked but did not rule out the possibility that certain parties might
have attempted to incite violence along the lines of France in Greece.
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