Prime minister George Papandreou announced a planned series of initiatives on the function of the justice system, the political party finances and asset declarations of politicians, the electoral law and clamping down on corruption, addressing a meeting of his ruling Pasok party's parliamentary group on Wednesday.
He further blasted the "traditional Left", accusing them of "dissolution of the university freedoms" which "will give rise to destructive reflexes for the country", in a reference to the takeover of a downtown Athens University Law School building, currently closed for repairs, by nearly 300 illegal migrants seeking mass legalisation of all migrants, both legal and illegal, in Greece.
Athens University rector Theodosios Pelegrinis, during a press conference earlier Wednesday, appealed to the premier and the responsible ministers to "safely relocate" the illegal migrants, within the day, from the Law School premises.
On Tuesday, the interior ministry ruled out all prospect of further large-scale and indiscriminate legalisation of non-legal migrants in Greece, in comments on the take-over of an Athens University law school building by hunger-striking illegal migrants demanding residence permits.
The ministry stressed that no mass legalisation process for migrants had taken place since the last national elections and there were no plans for one in the future. It said that the government would stick firm to a policy of promoting social integration for legal migrants while dealing decisively with illegal migration.
