so by subtly adopting extremist political views regarding a concern raised in the
irst place by the ultra-right, in the manner the ultra-right had intended; at the
same time satisfying a major part of the governing majority. It is no accident,
ater all, that the president of the Council of State recently appointed by the
government was previously the judge-rapporteur for the majority opinion in the
Fourth Chamber’s decision.
A temporary conclusion:
It would be unfair to say all judges are under the sway of racist xenophobia,
racialism or nationalism. In critical decisions that pose existential issues
for all of us, as is the case with citizenship, the Greek judiciary has been
divided, and the minorities have always been vigorous. The devaluation of
established institutions, including the judiciary, is a contracted mission of
the ultra-right, whether “constitutional” or not. Our task is to reinforce and
support these institutions. To do so, one of our indispensable tools is critical
relection on judicial decisions.
Bibliography*
◗◗ E. Vagena-Paleologou, Racism and Xenophobia: A Research in the Judiciary and the Police,
Nomiki Vivliothiki Publications, Athens, 2006.
◗◗ M. Emmanuelides & A. Koukoutsaki, Golden Dawn and Strategies for Crisis Administration,
Futura Publications, Athens, 2013.
◗◗ V. Mallios, “Between Hypocrisy and Illegality: The Loverdos-Adonis Sanitary Provision”,
http://www.hlhr.gr/?MDL=pages&SiteID=788.
◗◗ Κ. Tsitselikis Old and new Islam in Greece. From Historical Minorities to Immigrant
Newcomers, Martinus Nijhof, Leiden/Boston, 2012 (originally in English).
◗◗ K. Tsitselikis, “Reciprocity as a regulatory pattern for the treatment of the Turkish/Muslim
minority of Greece”, in S. Akgönül (ed.), Reciprocity. Greek and Turkish Minorities: Law,
Religion and Politics, Bilgi University Press, Istanbul, 2007 (originally in English).
◗◗ D. Dimoulis, “The invisible national minorities of the Greek legal order”, in D. Christopoulos
(ed.), The Undisclosed Issue of Minorities in the Greek Legal Order, Kritiki Publications,
Athens, 2008.
* All titles originally in Greek unless noted otherwise.
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