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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-04-04
CONTENTS
[01] Tsipras, Tusk to discuss migration, program review and Brexit during
meeting on Wednesday
[02] Mitsotakis says he will abolish SYRIZA's leniency law for prisoners
[01] Tsipras, Tusk to discuss migration, program review and Brexit during
meeting on Wednesday
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet European Council President
Donald Tusk in Athens on Wednesday morning. The meeting will be held at
the prime minister's offices at the Maximos Mansion at 10:45, followed
by joint statements to the press at 11:45.
The agenda will include the preparation of the EU Summit meeting on April
29, during which leaders will discuss the guidelines for the Brexit talks,
as well as migration and the state of play concerning the delays in the
completion of the second program review.
Ahead of his meeting with the prime minister, Tusk will first meet
President Prokopis Pavlopoulos at 10:00.
[02] Mitsotakis says he will abolish SYRIZA's leniency law for prisoners
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday he will
abolish the so-called "Paraskevopoulos law" which allows criminals
who have served part of their sentence to be released from prison,
in an attempt to relieve prison overcrowding.
"Innocent citizens are paying for the ideological obsessions of
Paraskevopoulos' law. We will abolish it," he said in a tweet.
The law was submitted by former justice minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos
in 2015, and was strongly opposed by ND. Mitsotakis' statement follows
a violent break-in of a four-member gang on the apartment of an elderly
woman on Athens's southern suburb of Palio Faliro.
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