House to vote on university asylum law

Greek Parliament will vote Thursday on a provision introduced by the government which will scrap the so-called university asylum and allow law enforcement and other authorities to enter campuses to tackle crime.
The asylum had been originally introduced to protect protesting students and freedom of expression, but the conservative administration says this has degenerated into a cover for lawlessness.
The new legislation published by the Education Ministry and tabled in Parliament last Friday does away with a provision introduced by the previous SYRIZA administration, which forbade police from entering university grounds unless they were granted permission to do so by the council of rectors in order to respond to a felony or a crime against human life.
According to Education Minister Niki Kerameus, the objective of the government's legislative initiative is "to...