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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-04-01
CONTENTS
[01] Greek parliament votes migration bill activating EU-Turkey deal
[02] PM Tsipras urges sports minister 'not to back down one inch' in
football deadlock
[01] Greek parliament votes migration bill activating EU-Turkey deal
Greek parliament approved in principle on Friday a bill on migration
activating the EU-Turkey deal and allowing the return of refugees to
Turkey as of Monday, with 169 votes in favour and 107 against. Twenty
four MPs were absent.
SYRIZA, ANEL, the Democratic Coalition and Potami voted in favour of
the bill, while New Democracy, Golden Dawn, the Communist Party and the
Centrists' Union voted it down.
The articles of the bill were then approved in a separate roll call vote:
New Democracy approved the articles 18, 23, 24, 33, 45, 47, 66, 73,
75 and voted against articles 5, 7,8,11, 22, 46, 72. The Democratic
Coalition stated "present" in the articles 8, 10, 11, 72, 73 and approved
the rest of the articles. Potami voted against articles 5, 7, 11, 19,
72 and approved the rest. The Communist Party approved article 67, voted
against articles 8, 10, 11, 39, 41, 46, 54, 55, 56, 57, 60, 73 and stated
"present" in articles 5, 19, 22, 43, 45, 72.
[02] PM Tsipras urges sports minister 'not to back down one inch' in
football deadlock
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged Deputy Minister for Sports Stavros
Kontonis on Friday to continue efforts to reform Greece's football
leagues following increased crowd violence at games. Kontonis canceled
this season's Greek Cup indefinitely.
Tsipras met with Kontonis earlier to discuss developments on issue after
the latter's meetings with FIFA and UEFA. After the meeting, the prime
minister tweeted: "I asked him not back down one inch. Either everyone
will accept to clean up, or they will face the consequences."
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