Greece's parliament on Friday passed a bill reforming the country's intelligence service (EYP) and banning the sale of spyware as the government tries to mitigate the impact of a phone tapping scandal still under investigation.
The case has turned up the heat on the conservative government that faces elections in 2023. It emerged in August when Nikos Androulakis, leader of the socialist PASOK party, Greece's third-largest, said that EYP listened to his converstations in 2021.
A few days earlier, he filed a complaint with prosecutors over an attempted bugging of his mobile phone with surveillance software.
