Tag: Greek Constitution
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Wildfires, Legal Geography, and the Constitution
—Maria Tzanakopoulou, Senior lecturer, Birkbeck School of Law Amid record temperatures across Europe, the continent is once again confronted by multiple wildfire fronts. Several deaths have been reported while thousands have been evacuated. The EU has triggered its Civil Protection Mechanism to offer emergency assistance, as domestic civil protection services struggle to cope.
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Landmark Ruling Issued by the Special Highest Court of Greece: Annulment of Parliamentary Seats without Replacement
—Fereniki Panagopoulou, Associate Professor, Panteion University I. The decision of the Special Highest Court[1] Acting in its capacity as an electoral court, the Special Highest Court οf Greece[2] recently annulled the election of three specific Members of Parliament from the Spartans party, following objections filed against their official proclamation.
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Video Interview: Constitutional Revision in Greece, Featuring Alkmene Fotiadou
—Richard Albert, Boston College Law School In this installment of our video interview series at I-CONnect, I ask Alkmene Fotiadou whether the recently-proposed constitutional revision in Greece could be unconstitutional. We discuss how the revision–which would be approved by referendum–departs from the formal rules of constitutional amendment in the Greek Constitution, and why, according to Fotiadou, this…