ATHENS — Greece will shut down overcrowded camps for asylum seekers on the Aegean islands and replace them with closed pre-removal detention centers, it announced on Wednesday as part of the new conservative government’s drive to toughen up the response to illegal immigration.
The Foreign Press Association in Greece (FPA) and the Athens office of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) organized a public discussion on media in Greece. During the event named ”Media in Greece: Watchdog or Lapdog?”, panelists discussed the state of press freedom, the financial distress of media, their tight grip on state power and private business interests […]
