Judicial Review over the Religious Education in Greece: Hellenic Council of State (Simvoulio tis Epikratias) Judgments no. 660/2018, 926/2018, 1749/2019 and 1750/2019 in Plenum
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Dimitrios Pyrgakis
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English
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Judicial Review over the Religious Education in Greece

Hellenic Council of State (Simvoulio tis Epikratias)
Judgments no. 660/2018, 926/2018, 1749/2019 and 1750/2019 in Plenum

Dimitrios Pyrgakis

Associate Judge, Greek Council of State

The plenary session of the Council of State decided that the new ministerial decrees on religious education in primary, middle and high school were unconstitutional given that they distorted the purpose of religious teaching, which is, according to the Constitution, to develop pupils' Orthodox Christian conscience.

 

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