The sad images everyone saw tonight in Athens must be the last such ones, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday evening, following incidents during a rally to protest police violence in the southern suburb of Nea Smirni.

"There are regulations that address problems that go back decades, others that address current issues and others that open horizons to the future. The education ministry's bill we are discussing today has all three of these characteristics because it answers boldly to the perennial problem of safety in the universities. It establishes a modern method of admission and the selection of studies and upgrades higher education as a whole, synchronising it with the needs and the pace of the 21st century," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis underlined on Thursday, addressing the parliamentary plenum during the debate on the education ministry bill.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will visit Cyprus and Israel on Monday, February 8.