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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-06-14Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Athens News Agency at <http://www.ana.gr/>CONTENTS
[01] We are experiencing days of rampant authoritarianism, ND spokesman claimsNew Democracy (ND) spokesman Giorgos Koumoutsakos and ND parliamentary group secretary Costas Tsiaras in a joint press conference on Tuesday accused the government of exercising anti-constitutional practices and making attempts to manipulate and divide the Greek society."We are experiencing days of rampant authoritarianism," said Koumoutsakos noting that the governing parties are collapsing. Both of them attacked the government on how it tables the bills in the parliament as well as the fact that ND's request for an examining committee in relation to what happened in the economy in 2015 and we were led to the memorandum has not proceeded. "Before these practices, ND is obliged to sound the alarm bell. These practices are not acceptable," stated Koumoutsakos. [02] Police complete evacuation of remaining refugee and migrant camps around IdomeniPolice on Tuesday completed the evacuation of refugees and migrants from the two remaining informal camps set up in the area around Idomeni, in the vicinity of a petrol station near the border and a hotel at the Evzones turn-off.Eleven coaches carrying 630 refugees and migrants from Afghanistan, Syria, Pakistan, Morocco, Algeria, Bangladesh, west Sahara and Iraq left for accommodation centres in Vagiochori, Inofita and the former Softex factory at Kordelio. One additional coach will soon be departing from the hotel at Polykastro, where some more refugees are located. As on Monday, the evacuation was carried out calmly, with refugees boarding the coaches willingly, though eight foreign nationals (five German, two Spanish and one Polish) had to be detained during the process. On Monday authorities evacuated an informal camp set up around a petrol station on the Athens-Thessaloniki highway at Polykastro, a few kilometres from Idomeni, transferring 1,158 refugees from Iraq and Syria to a hosting centre at Vassilika. The operations on Monday and Tuesday, following the evacuation of the main camp near the village of Idomeni in late May, complete the evacuation of the entire Idomeni region of the thousands of refugees and migrants that been living there in very poor conditions for several months, since the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) was closed. Athens News Agency: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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