Key tenets of Katrougalos law ‘unconstitutional,’ CoS rules

The Council of State has ruled that basic pillars of the 2016 social security legislation, known as Katrougalos law, are unconstitutional, according to a set of decisions published on Friday.
Crucially the verdicts, which require fresh legislative interventions by the government, do not have retroactive action and only apply henceforth. As a result, there can be no claims to the state by pensioners anymore regarding the law named after former social security minister Giorgos Katrougalos.
The plenary of the country's main constitutional court has decided that the way the social security contributions by the self-employed and freelance professionals are calculated contravenes the Constitution and is annulled, as it does not comply with the principle of equality with other professionals, i.e. salary workers.
The CoS further accepted that all pensions, regardless of...

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