{"id":15255,"date":"2026-04-30T11:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/govt-to-seek-constitutional-revision-on-universities\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:24:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T11:24:01","slug":"govt-to-seek-constitutional-revision-on-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/govt-to-seek-constitutional-revision-on-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t to seek constitutional revision on universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1302472\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ismini_Vlassopoulou_InTime_News-320x200.jpg?v=1777544990\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ismini_Vlassopoulou_InTime_News-scaled.jpg?v=1777544989\" alt=\"Gov\u2019t to seek constitutional revision on universities\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ismini_Vlassopoulou_InTime_News-960x600.jpg?v=1777544991\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulidis attend a ceremony Thursday for the inauguration of a Cypriot university branch in Athens. [Ismini Vlassopoulou\/InTime News]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>The conservative government will seek to revise the country\u2019s constitution to remove any potential legal impediment to the operation of private universities, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsotakis said that the revision would begin in the coming months and would include changes to Article 16 of the constitution \u201cso that here remains no institutional question on the operation of [private universities] in our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that his government hopes to make Greece a regional educational center.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsotakis spoke during a ceremony in Athens for the inauguration of a local branch of Cyprus\u2019 University of Nicosia. Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides attended the ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/1302472\/govt-to-seek-constitutional-revision-on-universities\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulidis attend a ceremony Thursday for the inauguration of a Cypriot university branch in Athens. [Ismini Vlassopoulou\/InTime News] The conservative government will seek to revise the country\u2019s constitution to remove any potential legal impediment to the operation of private universities, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Thursday. 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