Tag Archives: Georgiadis

“Stability, privatizations and flexible employment will bring investments,” Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis said on Friday. “We are building an investment environment that allows the investor to make money and we tell him you will come here, will not be bothered by going from office to office, you will not beg …

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“In this holy place, the prototype, the Euro-Mediterranean type, the Greek, the White, the representative of the Aryan race was born 13 million years ago,” writes Vasileia Stergiopoulou in the introduction of her book “Prehistoric Times” about what she calls the “Greek Aryan Race.” She claims to clarify that “Aryan …

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Audit in the Greek Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) has revealed a black hole of 90 million euros for the years 2007-2014. In a written statement the chairman of the Parliament Commission investigating scandals in the health sector, Antonis Balomenakis, said among others that independent auditors found “significant …

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A former finance and an ex health minister filed lawsuits against the protected witnesses in Novartis bribery case. Evangelos Venizelos (PASOK) and Adonis Georgiadis (New Democracy) filed lawsuits against the protected witnesses on Tuesday, two weeks after the scandal broke out and the report by the corruption prosecutor alleged that …

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Former Health Minister and now Vice president of conservative New Democracy, Adonis Georgiadis has said “they should hang me at Syntagma” if they find kickbacks from Novartis. For one more time, the ND-Vice whose name is involved in the Novartis case file sent to Palriament, was trying to prove he …

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87% of Germans are shocked about the win of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). The first time after World War II, a populist political party with racist features enter the Parliament. Majority of German and international analysts blame Merkel’s migration policy for the rise of AfD and the losses …

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Anarchist terror organization “Conspiracy of Cells of Fire” claimed responsibility for the package with explosives sent from Greece to the German Finance Ministry and Wolfgang Schaeuble. In a website for the anti-authoritarian movement, the organization said that the package was “part II of the plan Nemesis” and hailed more than …

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Greece’s main opposition party New Democracy warns that 200,000 refugees and migrants will flock to Greece if the EU Turkey deal on the refugee crisis breaks apart. ND vice president Adonis Georgiadis said on Tuesday that if the confrontation between Turkey and Europe continues, Ankara will break the agreement one …

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Vice president of conservative New Democracy urged US investors to buy Greece now because it is cheap. In interview to US network CΝBC, Georgiadis said “if you want to buy Greece, buy now because it’s cheap.” Some wondered whether Georgiadis’ embarassing statement had to do with his rather poor command …

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Do Greece’s creditors follow and apply advises proposed by conservative New Democracy? It is highly interesting that ND parliamentary group leader and former Health Minister Adonis Gerogriadis had already “advised” creditors to not adopt Tsipras’ plan and instead economically drain the country and impose capital controls. Georgiadis’ proposal came after …

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These days I try to avoid watching on television candidates from political parties praising their program and their positions. It mostly makes me sad to see either new and totally unknown faces or veterans MPs of all colors and ideological directions insisting that they know how to economically save me;  …

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Acting Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and deputy PM and Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos expressed their deep abhorrence and outrage to the massacre of 12 people at the office of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo by unknown gunmen Wednesday morning in Paris. But some Greek politicians, known for their far-right …

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Citizens without insurance will be able to get free access to medicines after a joint decision by the Ministries of Finance and Health was published in the Official Gazette (FEK). “The decision will facilitate access to pharmaceutical system for uninsured and financially weak citizens,” Greek media report. Eligible to participate …

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Everything was ready for the heart operation to begin: the patient’s chest was shaved, doctors and nurses were on alert. Then suddenly an clerk from the hospital accounts office walked in and ordered the doctors to stop the procedure because the patient was uninsured and had not provide a welfare …

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UPDATE: After the outcry and the troubled Greke patients standing up to three hour sin long queues, Greek pharmacies suspended their strike on April 1st 2014. March 26th, KTG reported: Hardly had Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis “solved” the problems with the doctors working at National Health Care system, he …

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This man wants definitely to put a poll levy to every one who walks or crawls, has fever or high blood tension. Greece’s (un)health minister Adonis Georgiadis announced that a 5-euro fee will have to be paid for doctors visits at the new national health care system (PEDY). Geordiadis justified …

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Huh? As if we didn’t know it, but yet cynicism is always surprising. Greece’s Health Minister claims to know better, when cancer patients need to be treated. Adonis Georgiadis, a History Dept graduate who made a career selling controversial books on television, describes “cancer” as “a disease that does not …

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Greece’s Health Ministry issued a number of practical advices for insured EOPYY patients for the days EOPPY facilities are closed. As of 18th February 2014 and for a period of one month:    patients should not call the 5-digit phone number to book an appointment with doctors. patients should seek …

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Primary health care doctors, administrative personnel and patients ‘occupied’ several EOPYY units on Monday morning to protest the unprecedented: the closure of primary health care provider 380 units for at least one month. The protesters hindered the handing over of the health facilities to representatives of the health ministry. Health …

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Hundreds of doctors working at National Health Care system (EOPYY) and public hospitals gathered in downtown Athens on Thursday morning to protest the so-called “health reforms” that close down the National Health Care institution (EOPYY), will give the green light to lay-offs of some 3,000 doctors and close down thousands …

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