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The government is taking initiatives in three areas (custody, access, tougher penalties) to address anarchy in public universities, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced at the beginning of a teleconference with the country’s rectors.
“As we all look away from the image of the hostage hostage, we must look at the facts head-on. After Golden Dawn’s punishment, the time has come to confront the other side of the parastatal, the one wearing a left-wing mask this time.” Fascism can change color, but it has the same substance, “stressed Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
“This peculiar fascism, because it is fascism regardless of whether it wears another ideological cloak, will end. “And now that Greece enters the third decade of the 21st century, it will not fear these representatives of the parastatal and will confront them and finally defeat them,” the prime minister added.
Interventions in three directions
According to the Prime Minister, the government’s goal is to take immediate initiatives in three areas:
First, in the establishment of a body for the protection of university institutions. An organism that will have a special training, will have its headquarters in the schools, which will be in charge of preventing criminal conduct in the university environment and when necessary will seek the assistance of the Police.
The second thing we need to discuss is how to update the general security measures available to universities at all levels. Which measures work and which don’t. The control of the entrance and access to the facilities, up to the lighting, the fences, the use of technical means such as closed surveillance circuits of the spaces.
And the third refers to the hardening of criminal legislation for crimes committed in areas of the university community. It goes without saying that until we make the necessary changes, provisions that are already in force must be activated, but are met with hesitation or, at times, fear from those who have to implement them. And here their role, the role of the Rectors, is crucial. The role of teachers and students is also crucial and that is why I look forward to your thoughts and suggestions ”.
The Minister of Education, Niki Kerameos, during her speech, analyzed the proposals that, as she said, “must be adapted to the specificity of each institution”, while emphasizing that “this disgusting image at the University of Economics further mobilizes the society”.
The Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis stated that the Ministry of Citizen Protection in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the academic community will present a comprehensive plan for the protection of universities.
Subsequently, the Presidents of the Synod of Rectors, the Rector of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Nikos Papaioannou and the Rectors of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Meletios – Athanasios Dimopoulos, the President of the National University of Athens of the National Authority for Higher Education (ETHAE), Periklis Mitkas. A common position of all was that the proposals presented go in the right direction and that it is necessary, in addition to cooperation with the State, to mobilize the majority of the academic community to end anarchy. However, they said that improvement measures had been taken compared to the past.
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