Athens warns it will now arrest people entering Greece without authorisation from North Africa.<\/p>\n
Greece has suspended asylum applications for people arriving by sea for three months.<\/p>\n
That has come about after a large rise in the number of people crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to the Greek island of Crete.<\/p>\n
Athens wants to stop their boats from even entering Greek waters.<\/p>\n
Human rights groups said denying them asylum is against international law.<\/p>\n
So can a change in policy really stop people heading to Europe? Are North African countries able to help in reducing the number of boats? And what are the likely outcomes of this suspension?<\/p>\n
Presenter:<\/strong> Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n Eleni Spathana \u2013 lawyer with Refugee Support Aegean and author of Legal Assistance for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Greece<\/p>\n Amine Snoussi \u2013 political analyst and journalist<\/p>\n Marianna Karakoulaki \u2013 researcher at Birmingham University focusing on forced migration on Europe\u2019s Eastern Mediterranean migratory route<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Athens warns it will now arrest people entering Greece without authorisation from North Africa. Greece has suspended asylum applications for people arriving by sea for three months. That has come about after a large rise in the number of people crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Libya to the Greek island of Crete. Athens wants to … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronews.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}