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Another victory in the fight against narcotics and addiction, by the Left!
The proposal to reform and strengthen the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction was adopted by the LIBE Committee with 52 votes in favor, 1 against and 2 abstentions.
82 of our amendments tabled on behalf of the Left were …
In an urgent letter to President Roberta Metsola, sent on the initiative of SYRIZA-PA/The Left MEP Kostas Arvanitis, dozens of MEPs call for a halt to the European Parliament’s practices that have stunted the institution’s interpretation services and affect the interpreters’ labour rights.
In the letter, co-signed by 31 colleagues from 4 political …
On 3 September 2021, a reform bill on the deportations and return procedures of third-country nationals was adopted by the Greek Parliament, passed exclusively by a majority of the ruling party.
During the drafting stage, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Dunja Mijatović, expressed serious reservations about the bill, and effectively …
A few days ago, George Zantiotis, a 24-year-old Greek immigrant in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, died at the police station while in custody.
He had just been arrested, under conditions of extreme, unjustified violence, and while his sister was begging the police, saying that the victim had recently undergone serious medical surgery.
The Wuppertal police …
