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Little over a month ago, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was still claiming that his party’s electoral victory last January had put an end to bailout programmes. A few days ago, he told the Greek people that a ‘No’ vote in the Greek referendum would lead to a deal with Greece’s creditors within 48 hours. […]
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Significant progress has been achieved since the Greek economy suffered one of the deepest and longest recessions of any advanced economy to date. Recently, the economy has proved resilient to the COVID-19 shock and new geopolitical risks. Yet, a number of challenges remain and Greece lags behind peer countries in various domains critical for long-term … Continued

Last month's election produced an unexpected destabilisation of the party system and triggered a repeat contest on June 25th.

The legislative election held in Greece on 25 June produced a victory for New Democracy, led by incumbent Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Yet as Athanasia Chalari explains, the real story may have been the large numbers of citizens who abstained from voting. There are different ways to read the results of elections, but one of … Continued

Last December, Turkish and Greek football fans were taken aback by an unexpected transfer. Fatih Terim, the 70-year-old manager, struck a deal with the Greek football team Panathinaikos. While Terim's move to Panathinaikos seems like a typical football story at first glance, it intersects with the evolving dynamics of the relations between Turkey and Greece. … Continued

Background The Greek economy went through a steep recession for ten years in the aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008. What started as a unique episode of a sovereign debt crisis in a monetary union, triggered a banking sector crisis and a sequence of adjustment programmes aiming at macroeconomic stabilization and economic recovery. … Continued

On a constant basis, church-state relations are a prominent topic in the Greek news. Currently, the new leader of the main opposition party repeatedly emphasizes that he strives to advance "church-state separation." As far as the desiderata for constitutional reform are concerned, relevant discussions usually centre on Article 3 para. 1 of the Greek Constitution (cited as "Article 3," but usually referring particularly to Article 3 para. 1), which defines the Orthodox Church as "the prevailing religion in Greece". Often, yet to a lesser extent, debates focus on Article 16 para. 2, which lists "the development of [...] religious consciousness" as one of the goals of school education. Still rarer, the debates cite Article 105 dealing with the monastic communities of Mount Athos. Surprisingly, Article 3 para. 3 of the Greek Constitution is barely ever brought up in the debates. Yet, precisely this paragraph could – rather uncontroversially – be labelled as utterly peculiar and, above that, obsolete.

Priding itself on openly saying what "the man on the street" thinks, the German tabloid Bild suggested a seemingly simple strategy to deal with Greece's debt problems: rather than relying on other countries' financial assistance, Greece should instead sell some … Continue reading →

In recent years, news about the Greek banking system is increasingly positive. Supported by the economy's recovery from the economic crisis of the previous decade and new policy instruments to deal with the crisis' legacy, Greek banks' bill of health has looked increasingly robust. Deposits have been recovering after their depletion during the crisis years. … Continued

For our weekly 'Ideas on Europe' editorial by UACES, the University Association for European Studies, we have the pleasure to welcome Dr Theofanis Exadaktylos, from the University of Surrey, in the UK.       1. Why now? The term in office of the New Democracy government under PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis that started in […]
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Proportionality increasingly dominates legal imagination. Its spread, accompanied by a global paradigm of constitutional rights, appears to be an irresistible natural development. Today, proportionality is perceived as a model of legal reasoning or even an emerging global grammar of constitutional adjudication. During the last decades, it has been at the core of a prescriptive human […]

These are exciting times for Greek constitutionalists. In its capacity as electoral judge, the first section of the Greek Supreme Civil and Criminal Court (Areios Pagos) recently banned the participation of the neo-Nazi Hellenes National Party in the elections of 21 May. In order to accept the constitutionality of the legislative ban on Hellenes National Party, Areios Pagos had to provide not only a new interpretation of Greek constitutional provisions, but also a whole new vision of democracy, of the Greek and the European Constitution and of Greek constitutional politics. The brave new world of Areios Pagos is part of a new constitutionalist approach that is likely to affect the application of constitutional provisions in future cases, as the more recent decision concerning the elections of 25 June shows.

The Greek migrant shipwreck was another preventable tragedy at the borders of Europe.

On 2 May 2023, the Greek Court of Cassation (Areios Pagos) ruled on the certification of the candidate lists of the political parties that could lawfully participate in the Greek parliamentary elections of 21 May. It refused to certify the participation of the Hellenes National Party, the successor of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. The refusal to certify the party breaks away from previous case law on political party certification and indicates a tentative, yet incomplete embrace of militant democracy by a jurisdiction that has traditionally been hostile towards its philosophy.

Vowels are essential in language and revered across cultures, from the divine "OM" in Hinduism to the Greek and Latin rituals.
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