September 2, 2024
Greece, Politics
A court in Tirana decided on Monday to release elected MEP Fredi Beleri from prison, accepting the relevant request by his defense. Beleri, who has been elected an MEP on the New Democracy ballot, has served two-thirds of his prison sentence, due to end at the beginning of October. The …
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February 16, 2024
Greece, Politics
The plenary of Greece’s Supreme Court issued a statement slamming a resolution adopted last week by the European Parliament regarding press freedom and the threat to the rule of law in Greece. The Supreme Court statement spoke of “a direct interference in the work of the Greek judicial authorities, regarding …
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May 26, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Eva Kaili is is free to return to her duties in the European Parliament and to exercise her rights as an MEP, her lawyers announced in a statement on Friday. The lawyers statement came a day after Belgian prosecuting authorities remove the electronic bracelet from Eva Kaili who has been …
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May 9, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Lawmakers adopted on Monday (8 May) a non-binding report and recommendation on the use of Pegasus and other spyware in the EU, calling for an effective ban on the technology unless certain conditions are met by the end of the year. The documents result from an ad hoc committee set …
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April 18, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola announced at the plenary session in Strasbourg on Monday that she had received a request from the competent Belgian authorities to lift the parliamentary immunity of MEP Alexis Georgoulis. “I received a request from the competent Belgian authorities to lift the parliamentary immunity of Alexis …
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December 12, 2022
Greece, Politics
European Parliament President Roberta Metsola stripped ΜEP Eva Kaili of her vice-presidential obligations and duties, in a brief statement to the European parliament. “Our way of open, free, democratic societies is under attack. The enemies of democracy (…) will stop at nothing. These malign actors, linked to autocratic third countries, …
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July 26, 2022
Greece, Politics
PASOK-KINAL leader and member of the European Parliament Nikos Androulakis filed a criminal complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office of the Supreme Court in Athens on Tuesday morning, complaining that there have been attempts to trap his mobile phone with the Predator spyware. Androulakis, reportedly discovered that somebody tried to infect …
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July 16, 2021
FEATURED, Tech
Greece, the country that aspires to be a tech hub and the basis for digital nomads, has the slowest and most expensive internet across Europe. In a study presented by the European Parliamentary Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, in several countries a significant percentage of cities have a connection …
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May 21, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
The European Parliament and the European Council agreed late on Thursday to adopt the European Commission’s proposal for a Covid-19 vaccination Digital Green Certificate. The voting is expected to take place June 7-8, 2021. According to a statement issued by the European Parliament: Aim is to facilitate the right to …
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February 13, 2020
Greece
The European Parliament penalized Greek MEP and former member of the far-right Golden Dawn party, Giannis Lagos for tearing up a paper copy of the Turkish flag during a debate in the EP last month. For using insulting language and tearing apart a national symbol, Lagos will lose seven days …
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November 28, 2019
Economy
The European Parliament has approved an EU Solidarity Fund (EUSF) aid worth 4.5 million euros for restoration of flood damages in western Crete last February. The idea was first proposed by Greek MEP Eva Kaili (PASOK) and was ultimately passed by majority vote. Crete’s flash flooding from the winter storm …
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May 28, 2019
Greece
Ambitious “Europe reformer” and enfant terrible of Greek and European finances Yanis Varoufakis and his party MeRA25 narrowly missed a seat in the European Parliament. From Monday to Tuesday afternoon, the live results transmitted via the website of the Greek Interior Ministry were showing that MeRA25 had collected 3.1% of …
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May 27, 2019
Greece
Ultra-nationalist and admirer of conspiracy theories of all kinds Kyriakos Velopoulos sold everything he could on his own TV show: from tooth paste, wonder remedies against baldness and books to “exclusive copies of Jesus Christ’s handwritten letters.” The far-right populist is the big surprise in the European elections in Greece. …
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March 13, 2019
Politics, World
The European Union should formally suspend Turkey’s negotiations to join the bloc, EU lawmakers said on Wednesday in a symbolic rebuke of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, who Western governments accuse of widespread abuses of human rights. “Sitting in a cell for 17 months without knowing what you are being accused …
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September 12, 2018
Politics, World
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 …
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April 17, 2018
World
Alliance between France and Greece in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. French President Emmanuel Macron sent a clear message of commitment to support Greece in case it faces any threats. Speaking at the European Parliament on Tuesday, Macron said among others “We are on the side of any EU member receiving …
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December 2, 2017
Greece, Politics
Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis revealed that he will run in the next parliamentary elections in Greece. Speaking to private ANT1 TV magazine Kalimera Ellada, Varoufakis said that his pan-European party Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) will held a conference in Greece in order to prepare for the new …
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May 4, 2017
Greece
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 …
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March 15, 2017
Politics, World
Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke has been suspended from the European Parliament ‘unprecedented’ sanctions. He will lose his daily allowance over sexist remarks he made in the chamber, Parliament President Antonio Tajani said Tuesday. Korwin-Mikke, who’s Euroskeptic, pro-Putin and not attached to a political group, told MEPs on March 1, “Of course women must earn …
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March 8, 2017
Politics, World
International Women’s Day? A member of the the European Parliament, Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke said that women should earn less because they “are weaker, smaller and less intelligent”! On another occasion, the European (?) Korwin-Mikke had made the Nazi salute in the EP chamber. Let’s have the EP send this …
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