Tag Archives: MEP

Member of far-right Golden Dawn was expelled from the European Parliament on Wednesday, for racist remarks. European Parliament President Martin Schulz excluded GD MEP Eleftherios Synadinos from a plenary session, when the MEP in an unprecedented move used racist remarks against Turkish people. “Turks are like wild dogs,”  “dirty and …

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Oldest Member of the European Parliament and veteran left politician Manolis Glezos had a very original idea on Tuesday morning. He sharply criticized the “I-talk-non -stop-and-scare-Greeks” European Parliament President Martin Schulz teaching him a lesson on how democracy works. Glezos addressed Schulz in Ancient Greek and added also a sentence …

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Veteran politician of the Greek Left and WWII resistance fighter Manolis Glezos, 92, has reportedly submitted his resignation to the European Parliament. In a statement uploaded in his Movement of Active Citizens website, Glezos said that he is resigning from the EP and that his resignation will come into forces …

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Manolis Glezos, the WWII hero and resistance fighter, the man who took down the Nazi Flag from the Acropolis, is heading to the European Parliament after more than estimated 160,000 SYRIZA voters “crossed” his name on the ballot list. On Tuesday morning and with 31.14% of the ballots counted, Glezos …

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The troika caused a social tsunami in Greece, Cyprus, Portugal and Ireland. This is the result of the members of the Employment Committee of the European Parliament who have investigated the impact of austerity and bailout program imposed on the debt-ridden Euro zone countries. “Unemployment grew, small companies disappeared, poverty …

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There is a news topic that it honestly surpasses me. It is complicated, it has lots of details of translation mistakes, pronunciations mistakes and lawmakers who don’t speak foreign languages and  to tell you the truth, I have no interest about. Yet I feel the need to post about it, …

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Nessa Childers, Member of the European Parliament from Ireland, called for Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn to resign over the Cypriot bailout fiasco. For this reason, Childers wrote a letter to European Commission President Jose Barroso. In her letter dated March 19th, 2013, Childers writes: “Today I have …

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 A mid-fight broke out between British MEP Nigel Farage and some German MEPs, including the German President of the European Parliament, after Farage compared Berlin’s proposal to assign a state commissioner to Greece with a word used by the Nazis. German Economic daily Handelsblat in its article “Farage: State Commisionner is like a “Gauleiter” …

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