{"id":3962,"date":"2020-04-07T15:20:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metaxopouloslaw.gr\/?p=3962"},"modified":"2020-04-07T15:24:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T12:24:20","slug":"awards-announcement-2-2-2-3-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metaxopouloslaw.gr\/en\/awards-announcement-2-2-2-3-2-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ARTICLE:  IS COVID-19 AN EVENT OF \u201cFORCE MAJEURE\u201d UNDER GREEK LAW?"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3962\" class=\"elementor elementor-3962\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-23aa8967 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"23aa8967\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-a47eeb3\" data-id=\"a47eeb3\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-587d739 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"587d739\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><em>by Achilleas Christodoulou, Associate<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although there is no ad hoc case law in Greece regarding an epidemic as a force majeure event indications can be found in older legal literature (a \u201cplague of cholera\u201d as an example of force majeure in K. 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