In 2012, a 10.5 km fence was built on the Greek-Turkish border in order to prevent waves of unregistered immigrants from flowing into Greece.
Since then, SYRIZA has opposed to this fence numerous times and during its recent campaign, Ms Tasia Christodoulopoulou, the new Minister for Immigration Policy, claimed that “borders, including Evros (the Greek-Turkey river/border) should be open so that immigrants can apply for a political asylum”.
Outcome: On 29 January 2015, Mr. Yannis Panousis, Minister for Public Order, stated that “The Evros Fence should not be removed”. However there is no final decision yet so we rank this as a semi-kolotoumba sitting on the fence between kolotoumbism and consistency.
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