Lawmakers in the governing party question whether the former deputy minister will end up shouldering responsibility for others. Some also accuse the government of applying double standards to officials caught up in scandals.
Greece hasn't executed anyone since 1972. As a failed execution in Tennessee shocks the US, top jurist Theodoros Psychogios argues the real issue at home is early release for violent offenders.
Ilias Kasidiaris has thrown his public support behind a party quietly founded roughly a year ago, testing a legal barrier that judicial sources say Greece's Supreme Court is determined to enforce more strictly than ever before
Greece's prosecutors' association says recent events have highlighted growing security risks for judicial officials and is urging the government to strengthen protective measures.
The ND candidate thanked police and the prime minister, urged prosecutors to pursue every accomplice, and said her family wants a fair trial rather than retaliation, arguing the rule of law is what sets Greece apart from those who resort to political violence
Jean Hanlon's family spent more than 15 years fighting a ruling of accidental drowning. A court in eastern Crete has now convicted her former partner of her murder and sentenced him to 10 years
The showdown the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) has chosen to have with the Greek justice system seems as incomprehensible as it is unnecessary. What’s more, it isn’t going very well for the EPPO.
Greece's Supreme Court is deliberating whether Alexandros Giotopoulos, the convicted ringleader of the November 17 terrorist organization, should return to prison or remain under conditional release.
A Greek prosecutor has moved to close the OPEKEPE investigation against two ruling party MPs, pending a mandatory second review.
An Athens court found 13 defendants guilty in a case involving illegal agricultural subsidies worth roughly €250,000 in northern Greece
Greece's Supreme Court prosecutor has filed an appeal to overturn the conditional release of November 17 founder Alexandros Giotopoulos, convicted of 17 murders and sentenced to 17 consecutive life terms plus 25 years.
The former Athens mayor, whose father was assassinated by terrorist orgnaization November 17 in 1989, said the release of convicted member Alexandros Giotopoulos reopened painful questions about justice, memory and public safety.
Citing constitutional separation of powers, Supreme Court prosecutor Tzavellas follows a well-worn judicial playbook used by his predecessors to resist parliamentary scrutiny of the Predator spyware case.
A Greek prosecutor has recommended that four police officers - a station sentry, a duty officer, a supervisor, and an emergency dispatcher - stand trial for failing to protect Kyriaki Griva who was stabbed to death by her ex partner outside their precinct.
European Commissioner Michael McGrath met Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens, commending Greece's governance reforms and tying rule-of-law progress to investor confidence and economic growth.
Despite the trial court's own call for further investigation, Greece's Supreme Court prosecutor ruled the Predator spyware case closed, leaving its deepest questions officially unanswered.
After all, the court is neither punisher nor vindicator. Revenge is not the object, while the punishment will result from the judicial evaluation of acts and omissions
An appeals court confirmed that the far-right party Golden Dawn operated as a criminal organization, upholding convictions against its leadership and members in a landmark case tied to violent attacks and the 2013 murder of rapper Pavlos Fyssas.
The MeRA25 leader will face trial in 2026 under Greece’s narcotics law after publicly recounting past personal drug use, prompting accusations from his party of political targeting and judicial overreach.
Government plans constitutional changes that would keep the special framework for prosecuting ministers but shift investigations to senior judges, reducing Parliament’s exclusive control while preserving political safeguards