House votes to end campus lawlessness

Amid a tense climate sparked by the government's decision to introduce two eleventh-hour amendments to an omnibus bill Thursday, Greek lawmakers voted in favor of a provision that abolished regulations that forbade police from entering university premises.
The initiative had been fiercely debated, with the government saying it will put an end to lawlessness in universities and main opposition SYRIZA calling it a bid to crack down on free expression.
"We don't want police in university, but we do want to get rid of the hoodlums who police the lives of students," said Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who had campaigned passionately in the runup to the general election to restore safety to universities and the capital.
The asylum law had been originally introduced in 1982 to protect protesting students and freedom of expression, but the conservative administration...