September 13, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Uncategorized
Cynicism among ministers of the conservative Greek government reached another level on Tuesday, when a minister told a TV magazine: ” Who doesn’t adjust dies!.” Deputy interior minister Stelios Petsas appeared on the Morning Magazine of ANT1 TV to discuss the energy crisis and the natural gas prices in the …
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August 29, 2022
Greece, Politics
Members of the Greek Parliament voted on Monday evening to set up a committee of inquiry into the wiretapping of the mobile phone of PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis. The motion received the backing of 142 opposition MPs of the total 299 lawmakers present at the voting procedure. All 157 MPs …
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February 18, 2022
Greece, Politics
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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February 7, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The Minister for Agriculture Development in Mitsotakis government was forced to resign and a former deputy finance minister in Karamanlis government, now mayor in the town of Sparta, was expelled from conservative New Democracy on Monday. Reason for the “drastic measures” was a video showing the Minister, the mayor and …
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January 27, 2022
Greece, Politics
Main opposition left-wing SYRIZA submitted a censure motion against the conservative government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis over its mishandling of the snowstorm that swept through central and south Greece since Monday. The motion was submitted short before Thursday noon during a debated over a new development law. “The snowstorm buried the …
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October 10, 2021
Greece, Politics
The resignation of Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz amid a corruption probe has sparked a political row in Greece as main opposition SYRIZA accused the government of blocking scrutiny efforts in public opinion polls published in Greek media. On Sunday, SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras unleashed an attack on the government claiming …
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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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September 17, 2021
Greece, Politics
Over half of the Greeks consider that the economic policy measures announced by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis do not affect them. At the same time, ruling New Democracy is losing in public opinion polls in September 2021, when compared to a year earlier. According to a MRB public opinion poll conducted …
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September 16, 2021
Greece, Politics
A public outcry broke out on Tuesday when New Democracy MP and former journalist Konstantinos Bogdanos retweeted a post of a website that was targeting children of migrants in a kindergarten in Athens. The website owned by the MP’s wife had published a list of the children’s names as well …
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July 25, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The Greek Presidency had officially announced that rescuer Iasonas Apostolopoulos was among those citizens to be decorated for their actions on the occasion the 47. restoration of democracy on Saturday. However, Apostolopoulos’ decoration was cancelled without any justification apparently following political pressure by some members of ruling party New Democracy. …
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May 6, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Greece
It may seems hard to believe but it is true: The decision of US President Joe Biden and his administration to support a temporary waiver on patents and other intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines triggered a major political dispute in …Greece. The conservative government to claim that it was …
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March 16, 2021
FEATURED, Greece
Ruling New Democracy MEP Stelios Kympouropoulos joined a far-right anti-abortion motion in the European Parliament triggering a public outrage in Greece where abortion is legal and there is not any kind of debate to revoke it. It was only after the outcry on Tuesday that New Democracy issued a statement …
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February 28, 2021
Greece, Politics
Government spokesman and Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister Christos Tarantilis announced his resignation Sunday noon. According to a letter he submitted to Prime Minister, he said that he resigns for “family reasons.” He said further that he will continue his work as a member of New Democracy parliamentary group. …
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July 15, 2020
Greece
Ruling party New Democracy intends to propose the prosecution of former SYRIZA minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos on a series of charges when it presents its own report to the parliamentary investigative committee examining the former minister’s actions later on Wednesday. Among the charges for which the ruling party wants Papangelopoulos to …
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July 7, 2020
Greece
At the anniversary of one year in power, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis ruled out early elections. Speaking to Skai TV, the prime minister ruled out the prospect of early elections, saying they will be held at the end of the government’s four-year term. It would be “politically dishonest” to hold …
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January 28, 2020
Greece
With order of the Prime Minister, New Democracy expelled form the party, MEP and former football player, Thodoris Zagorakis, over his statement challenging the decision of the Greek Professional Sports Committee (EEA) to have two football clubs removed from the Super League championship. On Monday, the EEA voted to demote …
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November 25, 2019
Greece
Anything but loyal to its pledge for meritocracy, New Democracy appointed an 80-year-old retired teacher as the new governor of the public hospital in the city of Karditsa, West Macedonia. Apparently the man’s top skills to claim the job and leave behind dozens of other qualified candidates was that he …
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October 28, 2019
Greece, Politics
High-ranking members of conservative New Democracy are determined to drive Greeks nuts with regards the history of the country. In the new narrative of the new government, on 28. October 1940, Greece did not fight fascists, Nazism and the Axis powers but ‘populists‘, and the Greeks were not soldiers but …
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October 18, 2019
Greece, Politics
New Democracy has set two important criteria that will determine whether Greeks living abroad are eligible for voting. The Greek government is determined to have the relevant law pass through the Parliament with a wide consent, preferably with more than the required 200 votes in the 300-seat Parliament. Interior Minister …
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October 9, 2019
Greece
The Greek Parliament approved the proposal of New Democracy to set up a special investigation committee to probe former Alternate Justice Minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos (SYRIZA). The committee will probe into Papangelopoulos’ possible involvement in crimes related with the Novartis case. The former SYRIZA minister has been accused of interfering and …
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