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Etudes par pays volume 2, PDF, 346 p., 1,4 Mo - Femise

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11873_2002 Study D2: Poverty, Informal Sector, Health and Labour<br />

greatly concerned with this kind of criminal activity and welcomes and<br />

shares in any EU relevant policies and interventions. In this respect, Greece<br />

supports and has <strong>par</strong>ticipated actively in the project of ‘’small arms and<br />

light weapons’’ (SALW) control concerning the South East Europe.<br />

Technical support was also offered and seminars were given to the Albania<br />

police, and in addition, Greece is financing the SALW programme for<br />

Albania with 50,000EUR annually for the period 2002-2006. Furthermore,<br />

Greece is cooperating under a bilateral agreement with Bulgaria police on<br />

border control issues. Similar agreements are also signed with Russia and<br />

Ukraine (europa.eu.int/smartapi/cgi/sga_doc).<br />

The two consecutive legalizations of immigrants in 1998 (Presidential<br />

Decrees 357 and 358/1997) and in 2001 (L. 2910) seem to have contributed<br />

to the containment of their criminal activity, by offering them the possibility<br />

of making some first steps to their gradual integration into the Greek<br />

economy and society. A byproduct of this legalization is that it facilitates<br />

the search and control of immigrants’ criminal activity through the<br />

requirement that the applicants are fingerprinted. The legalization also<br />

contributes to the reduction of their poverty and the related to it tendency of<br />

offensive behaviour and criminal actions.<br />

FONDAZIONE CENSIS<br />

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