“Whatever you had to say Mr. Tsipras, you have said it, the debate ends” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, packed his papers and left the Parliament Plenary where the debate on the surveillance bill was held. On a post with the video, SYRIZA-affiliated newspaper Avgi noted wryly:”The moment Mitsotakis runs …

The Greek government has cancelled the privatization of the port of Alexandroupolis in Northern Greece, a process that had started already in 2017. The conservative government has now announced that the port is too important to be entrusted to a private investor. On Thursday, the board of directors of the …

A group of the PEGA Committee of inquiry of the European Parliament will travel to Cyprus and Greece November 1-4, 2022 to investigate the situation regarding the development and use of spyware on the ground. 🇨🇾🇬🇷 This week, a group of @EP_PegaInquiry MEPs travel to Cyprus (1-2 Nov) and Greece …

Greece’s conservative government of New Democracy is considering to change the electoral law ahead of the upcoming parliamentary elections next year based on the polls-based assumptions that no party will be able to form a single party government. The change issue has been referred to on media by several government …

Greece’s government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou spoke out a halfhearted apology for having targeted and discredited the POLITICO correspondent in Greece, Nektaria Stamouli, who is also the president of the Foreign Press Association in the country. Oikonomou could not help but to correct his previous statements after an outcry by local …

A columnist in a Turkish pro-government newspaper has claimed that there was a assassination plan against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on election day, June 24. The plot has features of a …Hollywood production because as the columnist claimed “12 foreign countries” were behind the plot to assassinate Erdogan. The plot …

Thirteen years after the death of  Vodafone executive Kostas Tsalikidis, prosecutor has found that he was a victim of “a criminal action” rather that he had committed suicide. Justice has pressed homicide charges against one or more unknown persons  39-year-old Tsalikidis was found hanging in his apartment in March 9, …

The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Greece to pay damages to relatives of  Vodafone executive Costas Tsalikidis who was found dead on the eve of the government’s discovery of a major illegal wiretapping operation that had targeted the country’s political and military leadership. In a statement, the ECHR …

Two FYROM nationals accused in a wiretap scandal that helped bring down the previous government in Skopje have been arrested in Greece, police said. Greek authorities on October 19 said the men were arrested the day before at the airport in Thessaloniki, traveling on fake Bulgarian documents and apparently attempting …

Media in Albania claim the country’s authorities arrested a Greek businessman at the airport of Tirana. The 52-year-old constructor has been allegedly transporting ‘spying material’. According to Albanian TV news, the Greek national was allegedly carrying ‘spy ware’ in his bag. the man is active in Albania as contractor. The …

Anti-Albanian protesters stormed into Macedonia’s parliament on Thursday after a vote to elect ethnic Albanian Talat Xhaferi as parliamentary speaker. Social Democrat leader Zoran Zaev was left with blood pouring down his face after fights broke out. Injured have been also four MPs and ten policemen. Demonstrators from the initiative …

The Supreme Court has ordered an investigation into claims by the Greek Communist Party (KKE) on Thursday that the telephones at its central headquarters in Perissos have been wiretapped, as it frequently experiences crossed lines, notably involving the office phones of other parties. The government said that it will investigate …

During a press conference on Friday, Independent Greeks chairman Panos Kammenos said that the briber has allegedly worked as consultant at the Deutsche Bank and later at the Piraeus Bank until summer 2014. Panos Kammenos said that he cannot publish the taped footage or part of it due to legal …

German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) spies on Greece through emails and communications on internet. In an exclusive report of the Saturday edition of TA NEA published obtained documents showing that the spying was generally undertaken for reasons of “international terrorism.  The surveillance has been performed through DE-CIX, the largest communications …

The wonderful world of spying friends and foes is being unfolded with the NSA scandal, a world equipped with super modern surveillance units and lay light years away from the fictitious and exaggerated reports of Graham Greens’ local informants and spies. The NSA scandal reveals that US-friends have not only …

A prosecutor has apparently evidence that makes a link between two ‘dark cases’ in Greece: the phone tapping scandal during 2004-2005 and a plan to assassinate Kostas Karamanlis, who was prime minister at that time. The plan against Karamanlis was revealed last year by the National Intelligence service (EYP) with …