Greek Minister Slams Opposition Over Private University Reforms

Greece's Minister of National Economy and Finance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, has accused the opposition of resisting an "already established reality" on non-state universities, in a pointed Facebook post defending the government's higher education reforms. Mr. Pierrakakis, who held the education portfolio in 2023, said the issue of non-state universities had been settled elsewhere in the world for decades, calling Greece "the last major exception." He pointed to Law 5094/2024, which opened th...

By ANTHEE CARASSAVA