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Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-12-10
CONTENTS
[01] PM Karamanlis confers with justice minister, Areios Paghos' new
president
[01] PM Karamanlis confers with justice minister, Areios Paghos' new
president
Prime minister Karamanlis confers with justice minister, Areios
Paghos' new president
Prime minister Costas Karamanlis met on Monday with justice minister
Sotiris Hatzigakis and Areios Paghos (Greek supreme court) president
Vassilis Nikopoulos, in his first meeting with Nikopoulos since the
latter assumed his duties.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Hatzigakis described the
new supreme court president as an excellent judge and temperate with
respect to justice, adding that the government's intention was to
have a justice system that truly satisfied the public sentiment and
inspired confidence among the entire Greek people.
"We believe, in fact, that the effort that has commenced for a
'velvet revolution' in Justice, through voluntary exodus (early
retirement) and other provisions for accelerating administrative
trials, will lead to such a result that Justice will always have its
due prestige and be at the top, as befits it," Hatzigakis said.
Nikopoulos, in turn, stressed that it went without saying that he
desires the streamlining of justice, and was working in that
direction, adding that much has already been done.
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