# Greece bans social media for under-15s from January 2027

- By: Newsline Post Newsroom
- 2026-11-02T12:50:23.000Z
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## Excerpt

Parliament passed the law in a sitting on 22 and 23 October with only the governing party's votes. Brussels is letting it proceed, and age verification, one of the points that stopped a similar French law, is its real test. Greece's parliament passed a law in a sitting on 22 and 23 October 2026 banning social media for under-15s from 1 January 2027; only New Democracy, the prime minister's party, voted in favour. The law leaves age checks to the platforms; the government backs the state-run Kids Wallet app, which the digital governance minister says shows only whether a user has turned 15, without giving a date of birth. The European Commission on 29 October 2026 postponed for a year national drafts that overlap with its own proposal, but Greece can go ahead; in August, France's Constitutional Council struck down a similar ban.

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