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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July 14, 2021
Greece, Politics
A plenary session of Parliament voted on Wednesday in favor of a proposal by a House investigative committee for the prosecution of former SYRIZA minister of digital policy, telecommunications and media Nikos Pappas over his handling of the television licensing process in 2016. Of the 277 lawmakers present, 178 voted …
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July 3, 2021
Greece, Politics
Golden Dawn convict Christos Pappas, sits in isolation cell in Domokos prison since Friday afternoon and the woman who harbored him received 30 months imprisonment but was set free. Pappas was arrested in Zografou suburb of Athens on Thursday night after been on the run since October 2020. It was …
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July 1, 2021
Greece, Politics
Fugitive Golden Dawn convict Christos Pappas was arrested in Zografou suburb of Athens late on Thursday. He was reportedly living in an apartment registered under a different name. According to latest information, it was a woman offering him shelter. 59-year-old Pappas was second in command and right hand of the …
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March 31, 2021
Greece, Politics
The Greek Parliament plenary voted in favor of setting up a preliminary committee to investigate the role of former SYRIZA minister Nikos Pappas on granting television channel licenses in 2015 and 2016. The proposal was initiated by 30 MPs of the ruling New Democracy party, passed with 187 votes from …
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October 22, 2020
Greece
Police is seeking for one of the Golden Dawn leaders, convict Christos Pappas, who has chosen to disappear instead to find himself in prison. It was a few hours after the court ruling on Thursday, when police officers visited Pappa’s home with an arrest warrant in their hands. The law …
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April 10, 2019
Arts
The Ministry of Digital Policy approved a grant for the film “Adults in the Room” to be filmed by famous director Costas Gavras and is the cinematic adaption of the book by ex finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. The amount of 630,000 euros is a grant for director Costas Gavras. The …
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April 26, 2018
Greece, Politics
Dr. Stamatis Krimizis, the renowned Greek astrophysicist, has resigned from his post as President of the Hellenic Space Agensy (HSA) a month after his appointment. In his resignation letter, Krimizis cited the eternal Greek plagues: bureaucracy, meritocracy and a series of politically-motivated obstacles that would make the agency into “subservient …
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April 19, 2018
Economy
Greece’s Minister of Digital Policy, Telecommunications & Media, Nikos Pappas, is betting strongly on investments in ICT and innovation based sectors as seeing them as the key to the country’s future economic prosperity. Saying that Greece has arrived at the stage of having “a sound fiscal situation,” Pappas stresses that …
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August 9, 2017
Greece
Transport Minister Christos Spirtzis announced on Wednesday the appointment of the economist Stelios Pappas, the father of Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas, as the new president of the Thessaloniki Urban Transport Organization (OASTH). The company was nationalized beginning of July. In a statement, Spirtzis said Pappas’s appointment was part of …
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July 30, 2017
Very Mix
The National Council for Radio and Television (NCRTV) has set the starting price for each of seven national television content licenses put up for auction at 35 million euros – or 245 million euros in total. In a letter sent to Digital Policy and Media Minister Nikos Pappas, the NCRTV …
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April 11, 2017
Greece, Politics
Remember this science fiction scenario about the United States of Europe? A powerful minister and close aide of prime minister Alexis Tsipras calls for a Federal European Union. for more integration in the form of United States of Europe. Supporting the European Union goes hand in hand with supporting federalism …
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March 6, 2017
Politics, Sky
Greece is planning to join the world’s space race. There will be a Greek Space Agency made and run by public and private effort for the benefit of the country. “Greece is one of the few European countries that has not established a well-organized space agency. Greece will try and …
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October 31, 2016
Politics
Conservative daily Eleftheros Typos reveals on Monday that the minister involved in the TV licenses visited Venezuela together with a Cypriot off-shore lawyer whose name was mentioned in the Panama Papers. The visit took place back in 2013, that is 116 months before SYRIZA won the elections and came into …
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May 28, 2016
Politics
Greece’s State Minister responsible for media, Nikos Pappas said that the time has come to break the “triangle” of corruption, which he says exists between politics, banks and the media arguing that transparency is the key to sustainability. He defended the new ruling that overthrows the established system for television …
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April 3, 2015
Very Mix
After 26 years of “anarchy” in the landscape of radio- and television-frequencies and loophole in the existing legislation, the new Greek government opens the big chapter of the legal use of frequencies. At first stage the government demands the payment of outstanding debts of 40 million euro in total for …
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March 11, 2015
Politics
There is no cure for the Greek – German relations with insults and unacceptable descriptions to land into the minefields of both sides. There seems to be no sight of the verbal crisis diffusion, unless, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble goes home and devotes himself to his rose garden. His …
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June 4, 2014
Politics
A new Baltakos-gate is under way? Golden Dawn leader Nikos Michaloliakos claimed that he had private contacts to the director of the press officer of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and also two of Nea Dimokratia ministers. Speaking at the Greek Parliament, Michaloliakos said: Video: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt “Whenever …
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October 3, 2013
Politics
Golden Dawn MP Christos Pappas was remanded custody pending trial after his testimony that lasted some five hours. Pappas is the third Golden Dawn MP in custody after GD leader Nikos Michaloliakos and Yiannis Lagos. Pappas told the judges that the charges were politically motivated. However the judges consider that …
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