February 24, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
In a unanimous decision Friday a Special Court found former SYRIZA minister Nikos Pappas guilty of dereliction of duty over the handling of a 2016 television license tender. Guilty was found also businessman Christos Kalogritsas for the crime of moral turpitude in the breach of duty of Pappas. The Special …
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February 13, 2023
Greece, Politics
Nektarios Santorinios, the SYRIZA MP for the Dodecanese islands and former deputy minister for shipping, has died. He was 50 years old. Santorinios died of cancer in a hospital on his native Rhodes, in the southeastern Aegean, according to an announcement on Monday. The Greek Parliament held a minute of …
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January 4, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
New Democracy MP for Fthiotida, Central Greece, Themis Himaras, resigned as a parliamentary deputy on Wednesday following reports he misused state money for the benefit of his business, in violation of the Constitution. Article 57 of the Constitution of Greece is clear about the business activities of a member of …
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October 25, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday expelled Andreas Patsis, MP for Grevena. from ruling New Democracy’s (ND) parliamentary group. Reason for his expulsion is that as an MP has had a company -an offshore – that had bought “red loans from bank at 1/5 of their values. Further more, he …
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October 24, 2022
Greece, Politics
An MP from MeRA25, the left-wing party of former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, announced on Monday she was leaving its parliamentary group. Fotini Bakadima, who represents the second constituency of Piraeus, said she would continue to sit in Parliament as an independent MP. IN her resignation letter, Bakadima reportedly accused …
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October 20, 2022
Greece
“We cannot reduce the Value Added Tax in pasta, because the rich eat more than the poor.” The statements by New Democracy MP Constantinos Kyranakis about the government’s refusal to reduce the VAT triggered an outrage and a lot of taunt on social media on Thursday. “The rich and the …
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September 9, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The wiretapping scandal in Greece reached a new level on Friday, when SYRIZA MP and former Citizen Protection Minister Christos Spirtzis (SYRIZA) filed a lawsuit at the country Supreme Court. His phone was wiretapped with spyware Predator, in the same period as of PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis and journalist Thanassis …
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December 17, 2021
Greece, Politics
SYRIZA MP Panagiotis Kouroublis was expelled from the party on Thursday evening after he was censured by the plenary of Parliament for inappropriate behavior. Greece’s main opposition party, left0wing SYRIZA has now 86 seats in a parliament of 300. Party leader Alexis Tsipras conveyed the decision in a letter read …
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October 5, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
With express procedures, New Democracy lawmaker Konstantinos Bogdanos was expelled from the parliamentary group of the ruling party on Tuesday evening after a anti-communist rant in the Parliament where he claimed among others that communists were a bigger threat to Greece than Turkey. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis who is in …
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February 11, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
MeRA25 lawmaker and Vice Parliament Speaker Sofia Sakorafa was assaulted by riot police outside Attica police headquarters in downtown Athens on Wednesday evening, the party had denounced. Sakorafa was at the building along with others in solidarity with dozens who were detained during the students’ protest against the Education bill …
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February 2, 2021
Greece, Politics
A double explosive device exploded outside the house of New Democracy MP Konstantinos Bogdanos short before 8 o’ clock on Tuesday evening. The blaze reportedly burned down the MP’s car as well as the vehicle that belonged to his wife. Firefighters and experts on explosives rushed to the spot of …
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September 19, 2019
Greece
Where there is smoke, there is fire. In this case: there is water. Precisely, possible hikes in the water price, if one takes seriously the statements by New Democracy MP at the Sub-Committee on Water Resources earlier on Thursday. ND MP Babis Papadimitriou said that the water is “unacceptably cheap” …
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September 13, 2019
Greece, Politics
A Golden Dawn member of the European Parliament and a former member of the Greek Palriament were found guilty for the attack at a community center in Ilioupolis suburb of East Athens in 2013. MPE Yannis Laogs and ex MP Nikos Michos received an 8-nonth suspended sentence for instigating the …
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February 1, 2019
Greece
For a second time within days, Independent Greeks (ANEL) MP Thanassis Papachristopoulos, postponed his resignation. This time in order to facilitate the actually minority government to pass the NATO accession protocol for FYROM aka Northern Macedonia. Papachristopoulos went to the Parliament to submit his resignation on Friday morning, as he …
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January 30, 2019
Greece, Politics
A tragedy in Greek Parliament. ANEL MP Aristidis Fokas missed the voting for a legislation due to a …soda. “The voting had started and I had to go to WC because I had drunk a soda at the bar, I was absent two minutes,” Fokas told the stunning -and laughing …
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September 24, 2018
Greece, Politics
SYRIZA lawmaker Petros Konstantineas was beaten and slightly injured by a group of people over the Macedonia issue. The incident took place outside the hangout of ‘Bulldogs’, supporters of local football club “Blck Storm” in Kalamata, Peloponnese, on Sunday afternoon. The MP had just left a football match and was …
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June 26, 2018
Greece, Politics
A lawmaker from Independent Greeks (ANEL) resigned on Tuesday over the Macedonia Agreement. The resignation leaves Tsipras’ coalition partner ANEL with just seven lawmakers and puts to government majority at risk. It is the second MP out of ANEL in the last ten days. MP Giorgos Lazaridis who is elected …
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June 16, 2018
Greece, Politics
In what police claims it was a movie-like car chase on the country’s highways on Friday night, the now former Golden Dawn MP, Konstantinos Barbarousis, managed to escape arrest for “high treason.” The MP who called for a military coup, got on his parliamentary car and driving at high speed …
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March 3, 2018
Greece, Politics
Unprecedented racist rant by conservative New Democracy lawmaker. “I forbid gypsies to vote for me,” MP Thnassis Davakis said during a speech in a school in Sparta. He was addressing local residents at an information meeting on “Reaction, Prevention and Dealing with Delinquency among otherσ by Roma,” sponsored by the …
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February 9, 2018
Greece, Politics
An Athens court sentenced the leader of extreme-right Golden Dawn, Nikos Michaloliakos, to 8 months imprisonment for incitement to commit crimes. The sentence is suspended for three years. In a public speech on 3. Sept 2011, Michaloliakos threatened his political opponents saying “we would smash their heads.” he had also …
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