Government will strive to open the way for private universities in Greece, Voridis says

The government intends to put an end to obstacles that prevent the opening of private universities in Greece, Minister of State Makis Voridis indicated in an interview with Real FM radio station on Friday, breaking down the announcements made by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on this issue in Parliament.

Voridis called this a "major announcement" by the prime minister that "on a first level comes to be added to the effort made by the country and our government to overcome this dreadful inflexibility that has been created by article 16 [of the Constitution] and which has left us as the only country in the European Union without private universities. This unbearable insanity is something that outrages the whole of society. I hope it will end with the revision of the Constitution," the minister said.