November 28, 2017
Greece, Politics
For one more time, Greece’s socialist party PASOK is changing its name. I tiwll merge with small party To Potami and be named “Movement of Change”. For one more time, PASOK will change its tax number. Leader of Democratic Alignment (PASOK) Fofi Gennimata and the leader of To Potami, Stavros …
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November 20, 2017
Greece, Politics
The old leader of PASOK, Fofi Gennimata, has been elected to be the new leader of PASOK. In the second round of elections on Sunday, Genimmata received 56% of the votes, while her challenger Androulakis gathered 44% . The voters’ turnover reached 160,000. Genimmata’s goal to call for leadership election …
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November 13, 2017
Greece, Politics
PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata has gathered the majority of votes on Sunday elections that were held in order to choose a new leader for Greece’s socialist part PASOK. According to amna.gr, with 50 percent of the polling stations counted -which corresponds to about 70,000 votes- the results are: Fofi Gennimata …
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November 7, 2017
Greece, Politics
Greek police sees the urban guerilla group called “Revolutionary Self-Defense” as behind the attack at the headquarters of PASOK in downtown Athens on Monday evening. According to athensnewsagency, the suggestion is confirmed by the findings of a ballistic investigation released on Tuesday. pic.twitter.com/EkrB6dOtub — Ελληνική Αστυνομία (@hellenicpolice) November 7, 2017 …
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November 6, 2017
Greece, Politics
Unidentified perpetrators have reportedly shot three times at the headquarters of socialist party PASOK in Harilaou Trikoupi street in downtown Athens. The shorts were fired around 8 o’ clock Monday evening , while some 30 to 40 people were insdie the building and riot police squads and policemen outside. First …
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October 31, 2017
Greece, Politics
Ex Defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, his wife Vicky Stamati and his daughter Areti Tsochatzopoulou will have to return to prison, the five-member Court of Appeals decided on Tuesday. The second instance court opened the prison door to Tsochatzopoulos and nine more defendants on the case of “golden bribes” for the …
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September 3, 2017
Greece, Politics
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras stirred Greece’s political landscape on Sunday with a published article honoring the founder of socialist PASOK, Andreas Papandreou. The article appeared to the date PASOK celebrates the 43. anniversary of its foundation on 3. September 1974. In the article, Tsipras tracks PASOK’s rise from the political …
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August 2, 2017
Greece, Politics
Lawmakers from the ruling leftist SYRIZA party and their coalition partners Independent Greeks (ANEL) have passed a controversial bill aimed at overhauling Greek universities and technical colleges. The vote was conducted by roll call in Parliament Wednesday following a request by main New Democracy opposition that has fought the reforms …
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July 28, 2017
Greece, Politics
An Appeals Court on Friday found guilty former Transport and Communications minister Tassos Mantelis of money laundering in the Siemens kickbacks case. Following a lengthy procedure, the judges unanimously ruled that the 450,000 German marks found in Mandelis’ best man bank account which were deposited by the German company was …
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June 2, 2017
Uncategorized
A Corruption prosecutor pressed criminal charges against former defense minister Yiannos Papantoniou and his wife Stavroula Kourakoy for money laundering. The couple has been banned from leaving the country. The charges were brought after a preliminary investigation by the office of the Corruption Prosecutor concerning the legality of the couple’s …
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April 27, 2017
Greece, Politics
Ex defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos may be leased from prison even today Thursday, after friends of him donated the bail amount of 200,000 euros. It is a matter of bureaucratic details that have yet to be settled, Greek media report. 77-year-old Tzochatzopoulos is currently at the hospital of Korydallos prison …
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April 11, 2017
Social, Society
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras inaugurated the 120-km section of the Corinth-Patras highway that makes the journey Athens-Patras possible in just 99 minutes. “Today we are inaugurating a work that many believed would never be completed,” the Prime Minister said adding that the highway “would never have been completed if it …
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March 29, 2017
Greece, Politics
Odd things are happening in Greece’s politics. After 13 years of silence, the prime minister who took Greece to the eurozone, tha man who urged Greeks to put their savings in Athens Stock Exchange and saw it collapse without doing nothing, gave an interview. What did Costas Simitis say? “Early …
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January 10, 2017
Very Mix
One riot police officer was wounded after shots were fired outside the offices of PASOK in downtown Athens. According to media, one or two gunmen opened fire at a police bus outside the headquarters of Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement at Charilaou Trikoupi street very close to Exarchia – a districts of …
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October 17, 2016
Politics
A friend called me on Sunday morning and claimed that the atmosphere in the SYRIZA congress and the speech of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reminded her very much of the “glorious” days of socialist PASOK and the leadership appearance of its founder Andreas Papandreou. As I was living abroad in …
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October 16, 2016
Politics
Greece’s main opposition party, conservative New Democracy, is one step before going bankrupt after one of Greece’s systemic banks claimed its loans. According to newspaper Agora, Piraeus Bank asked the full amount of loans to ND. The total amount is 160million euros, incl. loan €131million plus arrears and surcharges. The …
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August 3, 2016
Society
Former PASOK Defense Minister and inmate Akis Tsochatzopoulos was brutally beaten in his cell in wing F of Korydallos prison in Athens. The former minister convicted for bribes in armament procurement was taken to the prison hospital to receive first aid as he had suffered “heavy beating”. According to daily …
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December 14, 2015
Economy
And now the end is near…. and so they face the final curtain. My friend, I’ll say it clear, they’ll state their case, of which they’re certain. They’ve lived a life that’s full, they’ve traveled each and every highway; And more, much more than this, they did it their way…. …
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September 23, 2015
Politics
Greece’s new government stands. 46 men and women sworn in on Wednesday morning to serve the country and the citizens in the name of God or just the Constitution. Not all the new ministers took a religious oath. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his coalition partner Panos Kammenos preferred to …
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September 16, 2015
Politics
In the first public opinion poll conducted after the debate between ex prime minister Alexis Tsipras and the leader of main opposition party conservative New Democracy Bangelis Meimarakis on Monday, Greece’s main opposition party leads wioth 0.5% towards SYRIZa. Poll conducted by Metron Analysis for private TV Action24: SYRIZA 27% …
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