{"id":12593,"date":"2026-06-24T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12593"},"modified":"2026-06-24T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T12:11:00","slug":"ioanna-mandrou-on-laura-kovesi-the-appeal-against-greece-will-be-difficult-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=12593","title":{"rendered":"Ioanna Mandrou on Laura Kovesi: The appeal against Greece will be difficult (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"76\" data-end=\"218\">     Ioanna Mandrou Ioanna Mandrou stated that Laura Kovesi is awaiting the decision of the Supreme Court, but an appeal against Greece is considered difficult.<br data-start=\"235\" data-end=\"238\"> <\/p>\n<h3 data-end=\"218\" data-start=\"76\">     <strong data-start=\"238\" data-end=\"277\">Mandrou\u2019s assessment of Kovesi\u2019s appeal and the European Commission\u2019s obstacle<\/strong> <\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"279\" data-end=\"552\">     <strong data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"299\">Ioanna Mandrou<\/strong>, speaking on the show <em data-start=\"323\" data-end=\"332\"><em data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"330\">\u201cEDO<\/em>\u201d<\/em>* on <strong data-start=\"338\" data-end=\"345\">ONE<\/strong>, referred to the steps that the head of the European Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office, <strong data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"463\">Laura Kovesi<\/strong>, regarding the renewal of the terms of the Greek <strong data-start=\"526\" data-end=\"551\">European prosecutors<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"554\" data-end=\"825\">     According to her, <strong data-start=\"577\" data-end=\"587\">Kovesi<\/strong> is seeking to obtain the potential <strong data-start=\"622\" data-end=\"659\">negative ruling from the Supreme Court<\/strong>, so that the relevant proceedings at the national level are exhausted and she can then consider the possibility of appealing to the European Court of Justice. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"827\" data-end=\"1056\">     However, the journalist pointed out that for such a process to move forward, <strong data-start=\"908\" data-end=\"918\">Kovesi<\/strong> would have to go through the European Commission<b><\/b>, which is an essential link in the process of filing an appeal against a member state. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1058\" data-end=\"1397\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">     As reported, <strong data-start=\"1072\" data-end=\"1105\">legal and judicial circles<\/strong> believe that it is <strong data-start=\"1125\" data-end=\"1147\">extremely difficult<\/strong> for the <strong data-start=\"1150\" data-end=\"1172\">European Commission<\/strong> to take action against <strong data-start=\"1193\" data-end=\"1204\">Greece<\/strong> on this specific issue, which concerns the fact that the term of office of the Greek <strong data-start=\"1279\" data-end=\"1304\">European prosecutors<\/strong> was extended for <strong data-start=\"1320\" data-end=\"1334\">two years<\/strong> rather than <strong data-start=\"1347\" data-end=\"1356\">five<\/strong>, as had been the subject of the disagreement. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"el\" dir=\"ltr\">Mandrou on Kovesi: \u201cShe wants to obtain a negative ruling from the Supreme Court so that she can then, if she succeeds, appeal to the European Court of Justice. However, for Kovesi to file a complaint against Greece with the European Court of Justice, she must go through the European\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/gUBFGxXBuU<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 tomanifesto.gr (@tomanifesto) June 24, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Ioanna Mandrou noted that Laura Kovesi is awaiting the Supreme Court\u2019s decision, but an appeal against Greece is considered unlikely.<\/p>\n<p> H &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}