It's all Greek to EU Commission

The row has been brewing for some time, after the Commission has repeatedly warned Greece to comply with EU law over the matter, and in a separate but linked development, demanded that the French authorities allow its lawyers to be able to take their qualifications abroad in other member states.
Greece's international English language newspaper, Kathimerini (April 8) reported that for years the country had 'adamantly refused to officially recognise such local departments of EU educational institutions as competent to issue university-level degrees, arguing that tertiary education cannot be treated as a commodity'.
But the Commission said this week that Greece's policy was discriminatory against both the graduates and the institutions that awarded them their degrees.
The commission will take Greece to the European Court of Justice under Directive 92/51 on the recognition of professional qualifications.
In a terse statement, the European Commission said: 'Decisions on applications for recognition have not always been in accordance with Community lawÉin particular, Greece still refuses to recognise opticians' diplomas obtained by its own nationals on its territory, but from institutions which provide other member states' courses on a licence basis.
'This refusal unjustifiably penalises not only qualified Greek opticians trained by such institutions, but the institutions themselves and the foreign establishments which validate the diplomas they issue.'