{"id":5154,"date":"2026-05-12T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5154"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:43:00","slug":"akis-skertsos-systems-and-reforms-strengthen-the-rule-of-law-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=5154","title":{"rendered":"Akis Skertsos: Systems and reforms strengthen the rule of law in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-path-to-node=\"1\">The <b>Aki Skertsos<\/b> put forward the <b>statement<\/b> of the <b>European Commissioner<\/b>, which captures the country&#8217;s progress in the areas of <b>justice<\/b> and institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The statement by European Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and the Rule of Law Michael McGrath following his <b>meeting<\/b> with the <b>Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis<\/b> reproduced on social media by <b>State Minister Akis Skertos<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><b>The statement refers to Greece&#8217;s progress on all institutional and rule of law issues and reads as follows<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to highlight the excellent cooperation we have in the field of the rule of law, as well as the significant progress you have made in recent years. I believe that, without a doubt, the reforms that have been implemented and the rule of law environment here in Greece have helped you to develop and strengthen the economy. And I believe, without a doubt, that it is now increasingly recognised that certainty in terms of the rule of law enhances investor confidence, creates an environment in which businesses invest, grow and create jobs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>In his post, Skertos continues:<\/b>&#8220;In recent years, we have been working systematically and consistently with the relevant European authorities to improve our country&#8217;s performance on all the critical indicators of the rule of law, namely independence and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akis Skertsos presented the statement of the European Commissioner, which reflects the country&#8217;s progress in the areas of justice and institutions.<br \/>\nThe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5154","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\/5154","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=5154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}