A Short History of Mediation in Greece

Abstract

On this date, Greece’s Law 4640/2019 was passed. This was almost a decade after the first appearance  of the Institution of Mediation in Greece and two years after the country’s previous failed effort to bring  mediation laws in line with EU standards. In the intervening decade significant socio-economic changes  had recast Greece through its long economic crisis. But now Greek legislation was finally harmonised  with the EU’s Directive 2008/52/EC on civil and commercial mediation.