The School of the Unfortunate: Greek education spending and EU fiscal rules

Europe's fiscal rules now name which public shortfalls are exceptional. In Greece, the classroom is not one of them. Joanna Demopoulou* * Joanna Demopoulou holds a PhD in International Affairs and is a former Executive in Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). Her research examines the legal and institutional architecture of public authority and governance, focusing on how law structures, distributes, and constrains public authority across European and international institutions. Photo: Greek parliament; photo credit A. Sivan, via Wikimedia Commons On 9 October, EU finance ministers agreed that Greece may let its spending exceed the agreed path in order to strengthen energy security. Among the measures Greece intends to finance on that basis is a €45 million energy upgrade of 246 schools and childcare centres. The upgrade of a school building may count among the costs allowed to take spending above that path. The teacher who works inside it may not. The decision…

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