As Greece struggles to deal with a seemingly endless influx of migrants from neighbouring Turkey, the conservative government has a contentious new plan to respond to the problem: a floating net barrier to avert smuggling boats.
including the cost of four years of maintenance. The government is expected to assign the job in the next three months.Greece's defence minister, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, told Greek radio Thursday that he hoped the floating barrier would act as a deterrent to smugglers, similar to a barbed-wire fence that Greek authorities built along the northern land border with Turkey in 2012.
The European Commission has expressed reservations and planned to ask authorities in Greece, which is a member of the European Union, for details about the proposal. Adalbert Jahnz, a commission spokesman, told reporters in Brussels on Thursday that any Greek sea barriers to deter migrants must not block access for asylum-seekers.
Floating barrier to stop coronavirus maybe?
Pertinent to a conversation I've had today, where some called this kind of behaviour 'xenophobia' and others applauded it, the difference between the two, for one, a secure financial future and a roof over their heads, and for the others, poverty and the threat of homelessness.
And our worthless media will cheer that they are copying us.
good for them
finally getting smart.
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