Pleuris: Those Not Eligible for Asylum Will Face Deportation or Jail

The Greek Minister of Migration and Asylum, Dimitris Pleuris, outlined his first decisions and directions regarding migration policy and asylum grants while responding to an urgent parliamentary question from Nasos Eliopoulos, a MP from the New Left party. The discussion revolved around the minister’s stance on immigration policy in light of past statements he made in 2011, as well as international law and principles of the rule of state.