INSIDER.GR: GREECE CHURNS OUT 5,217 PAGES OF LAW IN 2025 – MOST RIDDLED WITH UNRELATED PROVISIONS

INSIDER.GR: GREECE CHURNS OUT 5,217 PAGES OF LAW IN 2025 – MOST RIDDLED WITH UNRELATED PROVISIONS

KEFiM's latest study shows Greek laws are longer, rushed through short consultations (16 days) and almost never quantify impacts. In 2025 alone, 71.43% of laws included extraneous articles. The findings confirm the legislative bloat identified in EPICENTER's EU Regulatory Quality Index (EU-RQI), which evaluated 2022-2024 EU directives and warned that regulatory complexity disproportionately burdens member states with weaker implementation capacity.

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EPICENTER publications and contributions from our member think tanks are designed to promote the discussion of economic issues and the role of markets in solving economic and social problems. As with all EPICENTER publications, the views expressed here are those of the author and not EPICENTER or its member think tanks (which have no corporate view).

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