With a record number of votes (235) SYRIZA MP Zoe Konstantopoulou was elected Greece’s Parliament Speaker. Konstantopoulou is the second woman to be elected for this office and with 38 years old the youngest Parliament Speaker in the Greek Parliament. She is a human rights lawyer and  a member of …

“Greece will take a deep breath on Sunday. And on Monday the country will change page with the strong order from the people,” Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday speaking in Thessaloniki on Tuesday evening. He added that “the people with their votes will put an end to the devastating policies  …

Ballots boxes closed at 7 p.m. on Sunday for the second round of municipality and regional elections and the voting for the European Parliament. Right after the closing of ballot boxes, at 7 p.m., pollsters are going to publish the exit polls. According to Interior Minister Yiannis Michelakis, first official …

Hardy has the button “publish” been pressed and a new financial scandal breaks out. Slowly but surely we have lost control over the counting” how many prominent and less prominent Greeks have been arrested, how many of them are free on bail, how many of them are remanded custody, how …

For those who missed our posts on KTG.wordpress… below I copy paste the news. This is actually a service for the RSS Feed and E-mail subscribers: Rhodes floods: body of missing teacher washed ashore in Turkey Nov 27, 2013  The body of the teacher who went missing in Rhodes floods was …

Τhe unfathomable complex of the sexist nomenklatura of the Greek Parliament came in the spotlight on the occasion of various events that took place last weekend. Three female lawmakers became the target of sexist verbal attacks staged by their male political opponents, members of Samaras’ coalition government, both from PASOK …

After former PASOK minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, another former PASOK minister, another former Defense Minister could appear before justice. Yiannos Papantoniou could face charges for the alleged tax evasion of 3 million euro, Greek media report on Thursday. Yiannos Papantoniou had also served as Minister of Finance and Economy. Former Defense …

Hurray! Our Lenders & Masters are pleased with us! Yes, us, the lazy and tax evading Greeks. Our Lenders & Masters are pleased with the progress we have made. Oh wait! EU Monetary affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn did not say that exactly. He said instead: “We are seeing encouraging signs …

A devil’s week begins today for the Greek bipartisan coalition government, with the public sector in uproar, municipalities up in arms, the controversial multi-bill in the Parliament, a voting to prosecute former finance minister Papaconstantinou … Mayors have shut down the municipalities in protest and threaten with mass resignations if …

The preliminary investigation committee of the Greek Parliament investigating the famous Lagarde List and the involvement of former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou ended – or not. The meetings of this committee were stormy anyway full of quarrels and under the belt knocks. Nevertheless, the chairman (Nea Dimocratia) of the committee …

There are times when the honest Greek wants to bang his head on the wall. Any wall. Made of any material (wood, iron, stone). Main thing is the wall is solid and can stand the head weight of a naturally born idiot. These times occur when one reads, about favoritism …

On the way to the new taxation system, several details have been given to the press in order to do the usual of the last three bailout years: scare the people, test reactions and finally present the ‘worse’ as less bad than the ‘worst’. I mean, I hope it will …

Scenes of unprescedented aesthetic demonstrating the elegant manners of Greek elected politicians took place during the interrogation of PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos by members of the parliamentary  committee investigating the two-year disappearence of the infamous Lagarde list with the names of 2,200 suspected of tax evasion. Insults even below the belt …

A bomb exploded outside the residence of shipowner Nikos Tsakos, near Acropolis at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday. A warning phone call to daily Eleftherotypia half an hour earlier had sent police and explosives experts to the area. Greek media report that the bomb was placed inside a school bag left …

I have the feeling Greece tries to steal the media focus currently busy with Cyprus. Otherwise I have no logical explanation for  two news items coming from Greece. Maybe Greek authorities were alarmed to hear all these Cypriot citizens demanding “catharsis” for those who threw the country into such an …

An organization calling itself “Wild Freedom – Promoters of Social Explosions” -“Partnership of anarchist organisations” claimed responsibility for the bomb in Athens Mall last Sunday. In a long statement posted on the website Indymedia, the organization that appears for the first time noted among others: -the target was The Mall …

Who will be the next target of arsonists? this must be the question puzzling officers of Greek police after  barrage of self-made gas bombs exploding outside the homes of journalists, government party officers and banks ATMs. The latest target was the brother of government spokesman Simon Kedikoglou. Short before midnight on Saturday, unknown …

Greece’s three-party coalition government lost one more seat, when MP Christos Aidonis resigned from PASOK party on Thursday morning. According to his resignation letter, the MP said he resigned from socialist PASOK because of the handling of Lagarde list by leader Evangelos Venizelos. With Aidonis resignation, the number of seats fro …

Junior coalition government partner Democratic Left (DIMAR) expelled Monday MPs Odyseas Voudouris and Paris Moutsinas because “they have been permanently disagreeing with the official positions of the party” DIMAR said in a statement. Last week, Voudouris said in an interview, that he would call on a party congress where he …

Where there is a political will, there is a way… According to Greek media reports, the intensive crosschecks in bank accounts abroad and tax declarations in Greece have prompted the Financial Crime Units (SDOE) to call on at least 1,400 people to justify the money they have transferred outside the country. The …