A court of appeals in Tirana on Tuesday rejected an appeal by Fredi Beleri, the mayor-elect of the ethnic Greek city of Himare and an elected MEP with New Democracy for Greece. Under the court’s ruling, Beleri will have to stay in prison until October, following his conviction earlier this …
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Retired breeder and butcher, 76, elected MEP with Greek Solution
Galato Alexandraki, a 76-year-old retired cattle breeder and butcher, has been elected to be a MEP on a ticket of nationalist party, Greek Solution. The woman who runs a butcher shop together with her son in Alexandroupolis, , northern Greece, is well known in the area. Her popularity may …
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Greek MEP Lagos admits he is a Nazi
A sitting Member of the European Parliament, Giannis Lagos, has told an Athens appeals court that he is a NazI and asked if he was going to be judged for that. In an outburst while a witness was giving evidence about an incident involving the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group in …
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EU Court: European Parliament must provide access to information on convicted MEP Lagos
The Court of Justice of the European Union on Wednesday annulled a European Parliament decision to deny access to documents relating to funds the latter provided to Ioannis Lagos. Lagos, who has been jailed for participation in the criminal organization Golden Dawn, was elected to the European Parliament under that …
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“If asked, we’ll get off the couch and enter the battle,” heralds senior ND MEP
“If we are asked as NATO country, we will get off the couch and enter the battle,” New Democracy MP Vangelis Meimarakis told Greek media with regards the alarming developments in the Middle East. Speaking to ANT1 TV, the 70-year-old MEP said “we will defend our principles, our values, the …
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MEP admits she received e-mails data from ND party official
New Democracy MEP Anne-Michelle Asimakopoulou said that she had received the e-mail addresses of Greek voters abroad from a party official. The e-mail addresses came in digital format from New Democracy’s secretary and head of diaspora Greeks, Nikos Theodoropoulos, who was ousted from his post in the wake of the …
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E-mails scandal ousts a ND MEP, the head of Diaspora Greeks and a Secretary General
The scandal of data protection violations regarding Greek voters living abroad triggered a domino of political developments in the country. MEP of New Democracy Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou has been forced to abstain from the list of candidates for the upcoming European elections, the general secretary of the Interior Ministry Michalis Stavrianoudakis …
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Greece’s Data Protection Authority launches inquiry into ND MEP
Greece’s Data Protection Authority (DPA) launched an investigation on Monday into allegations that ruling New Democracy MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou violated data protection regulations by emailing to Greek voters living abroad ahead of the European Parliament elections in June. It is recalled that due to postal vote regulations, Greeks living abroad have …
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EP lifts immunity of MEP Eva Kaili over allowances management
The plenary of the European Parliament in Strasbourg approved the lifting of immunity for Greek MEP Eva Kaili on Tuesday following a request by the European Prosecutor over a case related to management of allowances to parliamentary assistants. Voting took place by raised hands, per procedure. The case had been …
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Search in Eva Kaili’s house in Athens in presence of Belgian prosecutor
A search was carried out in the house of MEP and ex vice of the European Parliament Eva Kaili in Psychiko suburb of northern Athens by men of the Greek economic police, following an order from the European General Prosecutor. A Greek and a Belgian prosecutor were present at the …
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Lawyers: Eva Kaili is free to return to her MEP duties in EU Parliament
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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Data Protection authority probes leak of alleged rape victim’s name and other data
The Hellenic Data Protection Authority (HDPA)on Thursday announced the launch of an investigation into a possible breach of the privacy rights of a woman who has accused a Greek member of the European Parliament of beating and raping her. The HDPA decision follows the publication of the victim’s name, pictures …
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SYRIZA MEP Georgoulis resigns over “sexual harassment” complaint
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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Ruling ND suspends MEP Spyraki’s party membership amid fraud investigation
Ruling New Democracy on Friday suspended the party membership of MEP Maria Spyraki amid an ongoing fraud investigation. Spyraki will not be able to run in next year’s nationwide elections until her status has been restored, a statement stressed. Reacting to the news Friday morning, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis described …
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EP-Vice Eva Kaili among four arrested in Qatargate: Belgian media
European Parliament Vice and MEP Eva Kaili is reported to be among the four people arrested over the weekend over corruption charges, Belgian media and French news agency AFP report early Sunday afternoon. #UPDATE Four suspects have been charged and remanded in custody in a Belgian investigation into alleged corruption …
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EP-Vice MEP Eva Kaili arrested in Brussels on suspicion of corruption
+++Socialist MEP and Vice President of the European Parliament Eva Kaili has been arrested by Belgian authorities on corruption suspicion related to Qatar, Belgian media,, French AFP and Greek state-run news agency amna report late on Friday. Citing a source with knowledge of the case AFP reported Kaili’s arrest after …
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Greek intelligence service admits spying on journalist, sources tell Reuters
Τhe head of Greek intelligence told a parliamentary committee his agency had spied on a journalist, two sources present said, in a disclosure that coincides with growing pressure on the government to shed light on the use of surveillance malware. The committee’s closed-door hearing last week was called after the …
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PASOK leader & MEP Androulakis files complaint for attempt to trap his phone with Predator spyware
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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New Democracy expels MEP for “discrediting Greece” with gov’t critical posts
Greece’s conservative New Democracy expelled from the ruling party MEP Giorgos Kyrtsos on Friday, following a decision by ND Political Committee secretary Pavlos Marinakis. ND expelled the MEP because his posts on social media “discredit Greece,” the party said in a statement. “Mr. Kyrtsos, who was elected with ND’s ballot …
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+++ Golden Dawn convict Lagos arrested in Brussels after EP lifted his MEP immunity
Belgian police arrested Golden Dawn convict Ioannis Lagos, just a few hours after the European Parliament published the voting results to lift his immunity. The ex MEP was arrested in his home in Brussels Tuesday noon and he tweeted “from the police car” confirming his arrest. the Belgian authorities enforced …
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