April 7, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The presence of a neo-nazi Azov soldier during the address by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the Greek Parliament triggered very strong reactions. Sharp criticism came not only from all opposition parties but also by former New Democracy Prime Minister Antonis Samaras. After Zelenskyy’s speech, an Ukrainian man appeared on …
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October 7, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg appeared critical of EU defense initiatives and bilateral pacts within the bloc such as the one between Greece and France. “What I don’t believe in is efforts to try to do something outside the NATO’s framework or compete with or duplicate NATO because NATO remains the …
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September 9, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Five Greek lawmakers remain unvaccinated against Covid-19, one of whom is from the ruling party New Democracy, Parliament Speaker Konstantinos Tassoulas said on Wednesday. The other four are reportedly from smaller political parties. The unidentified MP has invoked medical reasons to justify the decision not to get the Covid-19 jab, …
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March 22, 2021
Arts, Culture
A rare 18th century tapestry depicting master Rafael’s “the School of Athens” has arrived to Greece from France on the occasion of the bicentennial celebrations of the Greek Independence War against the Ottoman Empire. The French parliament has loaned the tapestry master Raphael, to the Greek Parliament. The impressive wall …
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November 22, 2020
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece marked the Armed Forces Day on November 21 with a video projected on the Hellenic Parliament facade on Saturday evening. The controversial video triggered reactions, several media described it as kitsch, and it was mocked on social media. The video projection on the Armed Forces Day highlighted several battles …
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February 12, 2018
Very Mix
From the Parliament gate to the prosecutor or a tiny cell at the police station nearby… One man was arrested at the entrance of the Greek Palriament when he gave guards his Identity Card on Monday morning. The new ID scanners installed last week revealed that the man was wanted …
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May 19, 2017
Greece, Politics
Lawmakers of the coalition government left-wing SYRIZA and nationalists Independent Greeks adopted the omnibus bill with new austerity measures 4.9 billion euros for the years 2018-2021. prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said right after the voting he expects form creditors to commit to debt relief measures. All 153 government lawmakers voted …
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January 15, 2016
Politics
Seven employees at the Greek Parliament have been dismissed after it was found out that they were hired with fake or forged school degrees. Among them is a “scientific adviser” to former Prime Minister Costa Simitis, two permanent employees and four members of the Special Guard of the parliament. In …
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December 22, 2015
Politics, World
The Greek Parliament unanimously voted a resolution recognizing the state of Palestine on Tuesday. the voting took place during a special parliamentary session attended also by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas currently on an official visit to Athens. PM Tsipras, President Abbas, Greek Parliament Speaker Voutsis “[The Greek parliament pledges] to …
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July 11, 2015
Politics
With a wide majority of 251 votes the Parliament authorized the Greek government to reach an agreement with creditors on another “rescue” package with will bring more painful austerity in the next 3 years. The roll call voting ended at 3:30 am Saturday with heavy losses for governing left-wing SYRIZA …
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July 9, 2015
Politics
The Greek government send the country’s proposals to the creditors to the Parliament on Thursday night. Tomorrow Friday, the Proposals will be discussed and approved first by the Parliamentary Commission in charge and later by the Parliament;s Assembly. The Parliament will have to approve the Proposals as the basis on …
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June 27, 2015
Economy, Society
It started with a false claim and soon spread like wild fire. The claim on Friday evening was that a certain Greek bank had limited cash withdrawals from ATMs. The claim ‘coincided” with the fact that it was a pension payday and people had gone to the ATMs to withdraw …
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March 30, 2015
Politics
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has challenged all opposition parties to take a straight position and say whether they support the government’s negotiations strategy with the country’s creditors. “Will you support the negotiations strategy to put an end to austerity or will you continue to acts as the mouthpieces of the …
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December 18, 2014
Politics
Tough guys in the Greek Parliament. Machos with a fetish of a special kind: a woman’s coat. One of the real manly lawmakers has stuck his ugly nose in the coat of MP Rachel Makri. Independent MP Grigoris Psarianos “sniffs” the coat and gets probably high as his equally sexism-ridden …
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November 13, 2014
Economy, Society
Amid strong reactions even from its own deputies, Greek government tabled a regulation amending the amendments the same government had …amended a couple of days ago. According to the latest amendment, the unified property tax (ENFIA) and the income tax were excluded from the up to 100-installment settlement for debtors …
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November 4, 2014
Turkey-GR
A new tension is high between the arch rivals and close neighbors on the west and east of the Aegean Sea, as Turkey is staging one provocation after the other, playing the game the country knows very well: claiming rights in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. Reason for …
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October 23, 2014
Politics
Ex minister for Health and Nea Dimokratia MP Adonis Georgiadis complained about the cuts in MP’s pay and perks. “Greek MPs have suffered the biggest cuts in their salary and allowances than any other branch in the government,” he claimed adding “the salary cuts reached 60% and the parliamentary pensions …
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October 2, 2014
Politics
“I have learned to live even on 1,500 euro!” Nea Dimokratia MP Maria Antoniou made a “historic” statement on a local television network apparently in an effort to demonstrate that even our elected members of the Parliament know very well what is “austerity.” “I am not rich… I have learned …
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September 26, 2014
Society
It was high time that the real data of the economic situation of the Greek society come to the surface! 2.5 million Greeks live below the line of relative poverty and another 3.8million people are at risk of poverty! A total of 6.3million people, which means more than half of …
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June 4, 2014
Politics
It was shortly after 5 in the afternoon and a fully troubled plenary session, when police hanged a Presidential Decree announcing the unexpected closure of the Greek Parliament and the start of the summer sessions. The government decision to close the Parliament as expressed by the Presidential Decree took Greek …
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