Selecting the candidate of European People’s Party as European Commission president would be a negative development for Europe, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said at the preparatory meeting of the Party of European Socialists (PES) on Tuesday. For the Greek Prime Minister the German candidate Weber (CSU) is “extremely conservative” and …

“Every vote for New Democracy is a vote for anti-Greek Weber,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday targeting the EPP’s arch-conservative candidate for the European Commission Presidency, German Manfred Weber. Reason for Tsipras’ attack on Weber was the comment by the latter on the relief measures announced by the …

“Next time I’ll come to Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be Prime Minister.” The bold support came by Manfred Weber, the center-right European People’s Party candidate to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as the President of the European Commission. The Bavarian arch-conservative politician from the Christian Social Union choose the Greek capital Athens …

Local authorities are on alert about 64-year-old Andrzej Weber who arrived on the island of Crete on April 6 and went missing three days later. His last phone call to his family was on April 8, 2019. Weber went missing in the region of Sougia on Tuesday, April 9. According …

Greek Foreign Minister, George Katrougalos has accused Manfred Weber, the European Peoples Party (EPP) candidate for European Commission president, of “reproducing fake news.” The Foreign Minister was responding to a tweet posted by Weber and in which he claimed that Athens was refusing “70,000 Greek nationals the right to vote …

“We need a new government in Greece,” said Manfred Weber, chariman of the European People’s Party (EPP) at the European Parliament and canditate of his group for the European Commission Presidency. Holding a joint press conference with New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the arch-conservative German politician from Bavaria seemed certain …

German conservative Manfred Weber cannot hide his dislike of the Greek government. It was just recently,when the CSU-politician from Bayern said that “Greece’s problem is the communist prime minister.” On the occasion of the debate at the German Parliament for the bailout tranche disbursement, Manfred Weber said “Germany will give …

European parliament vice-president and head of SYRIZA fraction Dimitris Papadimoulis hit out at the chairman of EPP, Manfred Webber, who claimed the problem of Greece was the “communist Prime Minister.” “Weber is again completely out of step with the majority of the European Parliament as well as Jean-Claude Juncker and …

An unexpected supporter for Greece, from a side which is not known for its positive approach. Conservative German CSU politician and leader of European People’s Party fraction in the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for challenging the Lausanne Treaty of 1923 and setting in borders …

Manfred Weber, the chairman of European Parliament conservative party European People’s Party, called on the European Council to consider an arms embargo on Turkey. Briefing correspondents in Brussels, EPP’s chairman Weber said “it is unacceptable and provocative for Ankara to threaten Greece with war and to raise the issue of …

For the first time, the European Parliament, by a large majority, voted in favor of the strict imposition of sanctions on Turkey, adopting the amendment tabled by the Greek and Cypriot Delegations, at the initiative of Vangelis Meimarakis, Lefteris Christoforou and Loukas Fourlas. The result of the vote was 440 …

Laudatory speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, for Dr Wolfgang Schäuble at the VdZ Publishers’ Night, Berlin, 4 November 2019. The English philosopher John Stuart Mill once observed that “a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to …

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called on European leaders to take measures and sanctions against Turkey, if it does not stop violations of International Law and provocative actions in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Arriving at the European Council Summit in Brussels, Tsipras said “A clear message must be given …

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras open the window for more benefits saying “our goal is a Christmas bonus” for the country’s pensioners. Speaking to news247 FM on Monday, Tsipras said that the government the so-called “13th pension equivalent to Easter bonus before it was cut due to austerity measures imposed by …

In a historic vote, the European Parliament decided on Wednesday to initiate Article 7 and sanction one of its members, Hungary. Reason for the voting were a series of laws passed by Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban that tighten control over independence of the judiciary, freedom of unions, academics and …

A Greek member of the European Parliament calls on the EP to send investigators for an independent inquiry into the brutal murder of Maltese journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia. The 53-year-old investigative journalist and member of the Panama Papers team was teared apart when a powerful n explosive device …

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Wednesday dismissed a challenge by Slovakia and Hungary against the EU’s relocation policy for asylum seekers, upholding the EU’s right to oblige member countries to take in refugees. In response to the migration crisis that hit Europe in the summer of 2015, the …

Chairman of conservative European People Party fraction in the European Parliament and vice of German CSU, Manfred Weber, revealed what the biggest fraction in the EU Parliament thinks to be the problem of Greece. “The fundamental problem of Greece is it has a communist as prime Minister,” Manfred Weber said, …

The President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani will make a formal protest to Eurogroup head Jeroen Dijsselbloem. At the plenary opening on Monday, not only Tajani but also MEPs got furious at Dijsselbloem who refuses to speak to the Parliament. The EP had invited Dijsselbloem to appear at a …

The European Union is furious about UK’s hesitation to implement the outcome of the Brexit Referendum. One after the other, EU Officials urge the UK to submit its Brexit request as soon as possible. After the historic Brexit decision, the heavy guns of the EU and Germany see themselves under …