{"id":135855,"date":"2026-02-11T16:40:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/posts\/135855\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T20:05:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:05:56","slug":"press-conference-on-our-joint-report-on-the-state-of-the-rule-of-law-in-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/posts\/135855\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Conference on Our Joint Report on the State of the Rule of Law in Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;200244&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;746&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;160342&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, 11 February, a press conference on the current state of the Rule of Law in Greece was successfully held with significant attendance at the Irida Cinema Theatre. The event was organised by the independent organisations\u00a0<b>HIAS Greece, Refugee Support Aegean (RSA), Vouliwatch, the Greek Council for Refugees (GCR), the Hellenic League for Human Rights (HLHR), Homo Digitalis, Reporters United\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>Solomon.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rsaegean.org\/en\/the-state-of-the-rule-of-law-in-greece-today\/#video\"><b>You may watch the press conference\u00a0<\/b><b>here<\/b><b>.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We would like to\u00a0<b>warmly thank omniatv<\/b>\u00a0for the organisation and online hosting of the press conference, as well as the\u00a0<b>Photography Department of POFPA<\/b>\u00a0for hosting the event at the\u00a0<b>Irida\u00a0<\/b>Cinema Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the participating organisations presented the key findings of the joint submission that we submitted for the fourth consecutive year to the European Commission on the Rule of Law in Greece in 2025, as part of the Commission\u2019s annual monitoring of national systems.<\/p>\n<p>We underlined the now\u00a0<b>urgent need to address the longstanding rule of law concerns\u00a0<\/b>in Greece. The issues documented in the report are interconnected and have nefarious effects on an array of facets of the rule of law, from\u00a0<b>justice<\/b>,\u00a0<b>law-making<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>transparency\u00a0<\/b>rules to\u00a0<b>press freedom<\/b>,\u00a0<b>civil society<\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0<b>data protection<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Our organisations have submitted this report to the European Commission and\u00a0<b>thoroughly document the pervasive, interconnected issues and deficiencies within Greek institutions<\/b>\u00a0as we experience them in our daily work and reality.\u00a0<b>We will continue to defend the Rule of Law in Greece.<\/b>\u00a0We expect no less from the institutions tasked with safeguarding it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/RoL2026_Greece_CSO_Report.pdf\"><strong>You can read our full report here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column column_width_use_pixel=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;200244&#8243; column_width_pixel=&#8221;746&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;160342&#8243;] On Wednesday, 11 February, a press conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":135850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,87],"tags":[671,1135,1136,1151,1178,1191,1192],"class_list":["post-135855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actions","category-reports","tag-predator-en","tag-1135","tag-1136","tag-1151","tag-1178","tag-1191","tag-1192"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135855"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135891,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135855\/revisions\/135891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homodigitalis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}