http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/7358a78a87defdb7 https://verfassungsblog.de/greece-private-universities/ Between Scylla and Charybdis - Reconciling the Greek Constitution and EU Law in the Council of State’s Judgment on Non-State Universities Lamprinoudis, Konstantinos eng 2026-01-22 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Court of Justice Court of Justice of the European Union Educational policy European Court of Justice European Union law Greece Griechenland Griechenland Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Can a national constitution guaranteeing public higher education allow private foreign universities? The Greek Council of State said yes, opening the way for the coexistence between public and private educational institutions. Even though the Council inappropriately resorted to an EU-conforming interpretation against the Constitution's wording and refused to request a preliminary ruling from the EU Court of Justice, its judgment is a prime example of “multilevel constitutionalism”.