By an amendment submitted to Parliament by the Finance Ministry on Tuesday, cuts to judges’ salaries and pensions, enforced since August 2012 as part of troika-imposed reforms, are abolished. This development came a day after a court ruled the retroactive cuts on the pensions of judicial officials as “unconstitutional”. According to the document from the General Accounting Office detailing the old and new salaries of judicial officials of different levels, these changes will cost the state an estimated 100 million euros in backpay and an additional 69 million euros annually in view of the increased payouts the state will be making henceforth.