Subject: Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 17-04-04 From: "HR-Net News Distribution Manager" CONTENTS [01] Tsipras, Tusk to discuss migration, program review and Brexit during meeting on Wednesday [02] Mitsotakis says he will abolish SYRIZA's leniency law for prisoners --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [01] Tsipras, Tusk to discuss migration, program review and Brexit during meeting on Wednesday Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will meet European Council President Donald Tusk in Athens on Wednesday morning. The meeting will be held at the prime minister's offices at the Maximos Mansion at 10:45, followed by joint statements to the press at 11:45. The agenda will include the preparation of the EU Summit meeting on April 29, during which leaders will discuss the guidelines for the Brexit talks, as well as migration and the state of play concerning the delays in the completion of the second program review. Ahead of his meeting with the prime minister, Tusk will first meet President Prokopis Pavlopoulos at 10:00. [02] Mitsotakis says he will abolish SYRIZA's leniency law for prisoners New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday he will abolish the so-called "Paraskevopoulos law" which allows criminals who have served part of their sentence to be released from prison, in an attempt to relieve prison overcrowding. "Innocent citizens are paying for the ideological obsessions of Paraskevopoulos' law. We will abolish it," he said in a tweet. The law was submitted by former justice minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos in 2015, and was strongly opposed by ND. Mitsotakis' statement follows a violent break-in of a four-member gang on the apartment of an elderly woman on Athens's southern suburb of Palio Faliro.