The Council of State rejected the Education Ministry’s attempt to hastily rename the Slavic Studies Dept. at the Philosophical School of the National Kapodistrian University in Athens to the ‘Department of Russian Language Studies and Slavic Philology’. The reasoning behind the Council’s negative ruling over the Presidential Decree draft on the renaming of the Slavic Studies was that it was unable to provide an initial positive opinion due to the lack of certain requirements, including a teaching curriculum and the absence of a clear organisational structure. The Council, however, gave the ‘green light’ for the establishment of Islamic Studies at the Theological School of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, as it judged it was necessary for interfaith dialogue and facilitating graduates from the islamic religious schools from Thrace.