Greek Minister Slams Opposition Over Private University Reforms

10:07 24/7/2026 - Πηγή: iEfimerida

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 the way for branches of foreign universities to operate in Greece and which the Council of State ruled constitutional, and to a pending revision of Article 16 of the constitution that would allow Greek entities to establish their own private universities.

Mr. Pierrakakis accused opposition parties of contradictory positions: one party, he said, backs revising Article 16 but rejects the law that enabled non-state universities in the first place, while another now accepts non-state universities but opposes the constitutional revision needed to let Greek institutions found them.

"Reality has already decided," he wrote. "What we are watching today is the opposition's delayed adjustment to a development considered self-evident in the rest of the world for decades. While it wrestles with its past, Greece must design its future."

He added: "We lost enough time in yesterday's battles. We must be first to seize tomorrow's

opportunities."

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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 the way for branches of foreign universities to operate in Greece and which the Council of State ruled constitutional, and to a pending revision of Article 16 of the constitution that would allow Greek entities to establish their own private universities.

Mr. Pierrakakis accused opposition parties of contradictory positions: one party, he said, backs revising Article 16 but rejects the law that enabled non-state universities in the first place, while another now accepts non-state universities but opposes the constitutional revision needed to let Greek institutions found them.

"Reality has already decided," he wrote. "What we are watching today is the opposition's delayed adjustment to a development considered self-evident in the rest of the world for decades. While it wrestles with its past, Greece must design its future."

He added: "We lost enough time in yesterday's battles. We must be first to seize tomorrow's

opportunities."

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