ATHENS (Reuters) – The Greek Parliament adopted by a narrow majority on Saturday a bill authorizing private foreign universities to set up in the country, contested by thousands of students who fear for the future and the value of diplomas of public education.
The text was approved by 159 votes in Vouli, the Greek unicameral parliament which has 300 deputies.
Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis defends this law on the grounds that, according to him, it will put an end to the exodus of tens of thousands of Greek students to foreign campuses, a loss of income for the national economy.
Thousands of students have been demonstrating peacefully for weeks in Greece against this reform project. On Friday, clashes broke out in Athens between the police and some of the demonstrators in front of the Parliament.
(Jean-Stéphane Brosse for the French version)
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