July 2, 2015
Politics
Coalition government partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) expelled one lawmaker for having said on television this morning that he will vote YES in Sunday’s referendum. THe MP was expelled in less than 2 hours after his statement, the party wants him to return the seat. From what it is said on …
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June 23, 2015
Economy
Eurogroup meetings, Institutions meetings, Euro Leaders meetings. Monday’s race between Greece and the creditors ended … early Tuesday without a deal. But with a perspective for a deal. And a bombastic package of austerity measures worth 8 billion euro for 2015 and 2016. Three Shades of Grey – …
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April 6, 2015
Economy, Politics
“I welcome confirmation by the Minister that payment owing would be forthcoming on April 9,” managing director of International Monetary Fund told reporters after her meeting with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on Easter Sunday in Washington. Going to meeting with Varoufakis: Christine Lagarde of IMFogue in Anna-Wintour-look. Or just …
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February 4, 2015
Politics
Huh? Conservatives in the European Parliament consider SYRIZA’s junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) as “extremist” and the whole coalition as “extremist government”? They mean, they have to intervene because ANEL-leader and Greece’s Defense Minister Panos Kammenos took an helicopter and threw a commemoration wreath in the Aegean Sea as …
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January 28, 2015
Economy, Politics
Alexis Tsipras and his junior coalition partner Panos Kammenos pushed the Fast Forward button to restore a series of so-called “reforms”, that is austerity measures imposed by the country’s lenders, the Troika. Several new appointed ministers of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks coalition started to announce thorough changes, right after they assumed …
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January 26, 2015
Politics
The very first challenge Greece’s new coalition government has to deal with is the Presidential election. But before this procedure is launched, other modalities have to be settled: form the cabinet, open the Parliament, get a vote of confidence. Cabinet The names of the ministers to form Greece’s new cabinet …
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December 29, 2014
Politics
The time of truth has come and the clock is ticking… The third round of voting for Greece’s next President will decide whether the coalition government of Nea Dimokratia and PASOK will stay in power or the country will head to snap elections. Sole Presidential candidate Stavros Dimas needs 180 …
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December 23, 2014
Politics
The second round of Presidential voting ended on Tuesday with candidate Stavros Dimas to have received 168 votes, far below the 200 needed. The votes came from the coalition Nea Dimokratia – PASOK (155) and 13 from independent MPs, among them two ex Golden Dawn. 2. round of voting – …
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December 19, 2014
Politics
The Press office of Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras issued a statement on Friday night, saying the the prime minister will file a law suit against Pavlos Haikalis, the Independent Greeks MP who claimed an attempted bribery. According to Greek media, the statement came within minutes right after private MEGA …
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December 19, 2014
Politics
Greece’s political kitchen is boiling after Independent Greeks allegations that a middleman attempted to bribe an party MP with 2-3 million euro in order to vote in favor of government presidential candidate Stavros Dimas. After Independent Greeks chairman Panos Kammenos revealed at the press conference that he first met the …
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December 19, 2014
Politics
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 …
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December 19, 2014
Politics
A bribery “bombshell” shakes Greece, after Independent Greeks MP, Pavlos Chaikalis, claimed that he was offered two to three million euro in order to vote for Greece’s next President. The attempted bribery came by a private person. “I would be given 2-3 million euro in total, 700,000 euro in cash …
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April 14, 2014
Politics
“Jobless” and “university degree”. That were the criteria Panos Kammenos, leader of conservative nationalist party Independent Greeks posted on Facebook in an attempt to get election candidates. On April 7th 2014, Panos Kammenos posted on Facebook that he sought candidates especially unemployed with European studies who agree the the party …
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April 2, 2014
Politics
Fierce are the reactions from Greece’s political parties after the release of a video footage showing the general secretary of Samaras’ coalition government and close aide of the prime minister, Panagiotis Baltakos, having a friendly chat with an MP of extreme-right Golden Dawn. According to news website in.gr, not only …
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September 16, 2013
Politics
This has certainly not happened before: that a politician, and thus a political party leader, urges people to lynch someone, in this case a local mayor. Speaking to a group of residents of Aristotelis municipality in Chalidiki, Panos Kammenos, leader of Independent Greeks ‘advised’ to lynch Aristotelis mayor Christos Pachtas: …
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January 28, 2013
Politics
Left-wing SYRIZA lawmaker Tasos Kourakis made a ‘revolutionary proposal’: that clerics’ wages should be funded not by the state but by those who declare themselves to be Christian orthodox and thus through a special tax similar in other European countries like Germany. The funding scheme was proposed by Kourakis in …
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January 14, 2013
Politics
Greek police arrested a policeman who was ‘following’ Panos Kammenos, leader of nationalist party “Independent Greeks”. According to media reports, Kammenos sought the aid of police after his personal security men realized a man on a motorcycle was following his car when he left his home to go to the …
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October 1, 2012
Society
Members of Independent Greeks party prepared a hot welcome with boos and vulgar insults to members of the Troika on Monday in Athens. The technical team of the country’es lenders from IMF, EU and ECB had an appointment with Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras. But they protesters had gathered much earlier outside …
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