October 4, 2024
Greece, Politics
Former conservative ND prime ministers Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras are turning their backs on Kyriakos Mitsotakis as they will not attend the street party for the 50th anniversary of the New Democracy scheduled to take place in Rigillis Square in downtown Athens on Friday afternoon. In a coordinated action …
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July 2, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Former Prime Ministers Antonis Samaras and Kostas Karamanlis sharply criticized PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, an all-out verbal attack so to say, during an event organized for a book presentation. The PM was also invited but he preferred to be represented by the government spokesman as it was already known that he …
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February 13, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
For former Transportation Minister Achileas Karamanlis sole responsible for the tragic train collision in Tempi on February 28, 2023, was the “human error” and the “Greek public sector.” He bore no responsibility whatsoever, even though he was Transportation & Infrastructure Minister since July 2019. Appearing at the Parliament committee investigating …
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May 15, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Relatives of the victims of the deadly train collision in Tempi gathered outside the office of New Democracy politician, Costas Karamanlis, who was transport Minister at the time of the tragedy. The mourning relatives who have established an association, traveled to the city of Serres on Sunday to demand Justice …
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March 1, 2023
Greece, Politics
Greece’s Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis submitted his resignation on Wednesday afternoon, 17 hours after the deadly train tragedy in Tempi. His resignation comes following public fury and immense pressure on social media and thus as elections near. Karamanlis submitted his resignation after he returned from a visit to …
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September 1, 2022
Greece, Politics
Former New Democracy prime minister Kostas Karamanlis showed a “red card” to Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday evening, when, in a rare appearance, publicly took position on the wiretapping scandal where the National intelligence Service surveilled the leader of PASOK/KINAL Nikos Androulakis. Speaking at an event held ion the island of …
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June 2, 2020
Very Mix
Former “First Lady” of Greece, Anna Megapanou, a children books author, passed away at the age of 91. Amalia Megapanou was the wife of the late prime minister Konstantinos Karamanlis (1907-1998), a conservative politician who served four times as prime minister of Greece. Megapanou was considered as one of the …
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July 31, 2019
Uncategorized
In a totally unacceptable statement, the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Costas Karamanlis, called ticket dodges “scums of the society.” “Those using the metro without buying a ticket should feel like dodgers and scums of the society,” baby face Karamanlis of the famous politicians family said in an interview with …
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October 17, 2017
Greece, Politics
A Russian documentary claims that the CIA had plotted to assassinate Greece’s conservative former Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis in 2009 over opening relations to Russia as well as geo-political and energy plans in the area. The documentary was broadcast on main Russian TV news show Vesti a week ago. According …
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March 21, 2017
Uncategorized
With tears and applause the audience welcomed the decision of an Athens criminal court to acquit all 14 defendants charged in connection with a property swap between the Vatopedi Monastery in the Mount Athos monastic community in northern Greece and the Greek state. The abbot of the Vatopedi monastery, Ephraim, …
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March 10, 2015
Politics
While everybody has/had been awaiting for ex Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to resign from Nea Dimokratia leadership as he lost the elections, the ex PM is still there, alive and kicking. At a 3-day meeting of the Political Committee of the party over the weekend, at least 15 ND lawmakers …
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April 2, 2013
Politics
A prosecutor has apparently evidence that makes a link between two ‘dark cases’ in Greece: the phone tapping scandal during 2004-2005 and a plan to assassinate Kostas Karamanlis, who was prime minister at that time. The plan against Karamanlis was revealed last year by the National Intelligence service (EYP) with …
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March 15, 2012
Politics
It sounds like a polit-thriller. And it looks as if there was an assassination plan against former conservative prime minister Costas Karamanlis and a whole plot to destabilize the country, in April 2008. After several months of investigation a prosecutor in Athens opened a criminal case ‘against unknown persons’ on Wednesday …
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