Council of State

The controversy over mining projects in northern Greece continues as the Greek Council of State cancelled the Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Ministry's decision to recall the permits for Hellas Gold's technical mining studies in northern Greece. The country's supreme court argued that the...

The Council of State, Greece's supreme court on administrative and environmental interest matters, has issued two court decisions in favor of Hellas Gold SA, Eldorado’s subsidiary in Greece, announced the company. Both decisions concern Hellas Gold’s rights to the use...

The Council of State, Greece's supreme court, struck down a request filed by two citizens that asked for the cancellation of Sunday's referendum. The court heard the arguments in favor and against the request. The 21 members of the court then convened and decided...

The Greek Council of State plenary stated that a recent law for legalizing unauthorized buildings is constitutional, declaring just one of the law’s provision as unlawful. The Supreme Court encountered no unconstitutional provisions in the Greek law addressing arbitrary buildings, with the...

Legal residence in Greece of one parent for at least five years before a child's birth and the enrollment of that child in first grade during the citizenship application year are the main requirements for immigrant children to acquire...

Municipalities cannot be granted the right to use beaches by a single, one-size-fits-all ministerial decision, the Greek Council of State said on Monday, in a case on how coastal cities can utilize beaches for revenue, whether on their own or by granting...

The fifth section of the Council of State on Wednesday rejected a joint appeal by 264 residents of Chalkidiki, in northern Greece, against a gold mining project in the area of Skouries. The residents of the area had appealed on...

The Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court, on Tuesday approved the coalition plan to re-establish the municipal police within the national police force. The municipal police was disbanded in the summer of 2013 as part of the government’s effort...

Seventy-three years after the Nazi atrocities against Greece during the German occupation, the Council of State approved a presidential decree draft recognizing four Greek villages and one town as martyr cities. The Greek Supreme Court gave the green light for the...

Greek public employees' union federation ADEDY and other public-sector unions announced that they will have recourse to the Council of State, Greece 's Supreme Administrative Court, to contest an extension of staff evaluation measures that they consider illegal and unconstitutional. The unions will...