Feb
29
From the Athens News
PIRAEUS Mayor Panayotis Fasoulas has decided to create a special committee to assess the problems faced by his municipality’s immigrant residents and help local officials find solutions. This is part of the municipality’s local immigrant integration initiative.
A total of nine Piraeus municipal council members and four local immigrant community representatives will sit on the committee. This is the first time that immigrants have been invited to participate at a local government level.
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it was about time local government adopted this kind of initiative. I hope this won’t be another case of big words and no action …
I also hope that the people chosen (by whom ? and how? ) to represent immigrants will live up to the standards required for such an initiative to work succesfully
Interesting point made by MBE but how to do this without further institutionalizing divisions? Possibly a three tier register. 1. Citizens 2. EU citizens 3. Non EU residents. But then Bulgarians, Romanians and Poles would be lumped with UK citizens. Good thing or bad DD and MBE? I can’t help thinking that the crucial problem in Greece is that the route from 3 to 1 is made so difficult. If initiatives such as the Piraeus one (even if formalized a la MBE) are seen as feasible half way house then they might set the broader cause back. Over to those who actually live in Greece (we have our problems in the UK but they are very different).