The new rejection of the opening of Germany's dialogue with Greece on war compensations on the part of the former by the invocation of the Treaty of 2 + 4 of 1990 on the reunification of Germany is strongly criticized by the professor of the Law School of the University of Bremen Andreas Fischer -Lescano.

Greece's demands from Germany in connection with a forced WWII occupation loan and war reparations dating back to the Nazi occupation are "legally active and judicially enforceable," President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos said on Thursday, in his address at an official dinner held in honour of visiting German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Budenbender.

The German stance on war reparations is scandalous and does not fit in a just state, said German economist Rainer Thiem who took the initiative through the web platform change.org to collect signatures for the German war reparations to Greece.