No breaks on the path of radical reform

It took him just nine months in office in his first-ever term in government to score his first big win as head of the ministry responsible for bringing Greek bureaucracy into the digital age. This time around, as minister of education since June, it looks like his first major win in that post will come a bit sooner.

Now, with a draft bill establishing private, nonprofit universities without amending the controversial Article 16 of the Constitution heading to Parliament in February, Kyriakos Pierrakakis has been thrust back into the public spotlight as he prepares to do battle with one of the most ideologically charged issues of the post-dictatorship era.

As digital governance minister, Pierrakakis enjoyed a certain amount of hard-to-come-by immunity from the fire of the opposition; now he will be facing its full force as he takes on a totem of Greek statism.

He...