June 14, 2024
Greece, Politics
The Hellenic General Directorate for Defensive Investments and Armaments has signed a contract for the building of unmanned semi-fixed sea platforms for maritime surveillance (USSPS) with Greek company ETME, according to an announcement on Thursday. Launched in 2021, the Unmanned Semi-Fixed Sea Platforms for Maritime Surveillance Project is being developed …
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April 5, 2024
Greece, Politics
The plenary of Greece’s Council of State has deemed the surveillance law unconstitutional and ruled that privacy watchdog ADAE must provide subjects of surveillance with information on the material collected. The decision opens the way to leader of socialist PASOK/KINAL, Nikos Androulakis, a subject of surveillance, to return his request to …
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December 6, 2022
Greece, Politics
Leader of Greece’s socialist PASOK-KINAL party, Nikos Androulakis, appealed to the European Court of Human Rights on Monday over the wiretapping of his mobile phone. Androulakis appealed to the ECHR for the wiretapping of his mobile phone, complaining that he was not given the opportunity to be officially informed of …
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November 28, 2022
Greece, Politics
Former general secretary at the Prime Minister’s Office and nephew of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Grigoris Dimitriadis, testified on Monday at the Institutions and Transparency Committee over the wiretapping scandal and the Predator malware. Invited were also three businessmen allegedly involved in the companies Krikell and Intellexa who, however, were not present …
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November 5, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Sunday newspaper Documento and its publisher Kostas Vaxevanis shake the political landscape in Greece, when they published a list of some 33 people whose mobile phones have been allegedly found to have trace of illegal spyware Predator. From a partial list as seen on the news paper’s front page, the …
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October 31, 2022
Greece, Politics
A group of the PEGA Committee of inquiry of the European Parliament will travel to Cyprus and Greece November 1-4, 2022 to investigate the situation regarding the development and use of spyware on the ground. 🇨🇾🇬🇷 This week, a group of @EP_PegaInquiry MEPs travel to Cyprus (1-2 Nov) and Greece …
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August 10, 2022
Economy
The European Commission will not prolong the enhanced surveillance of Greece once it expires on 20 August, it said on Wednesday. In a statement, the Commission said that “following exchanges with the Greek authorities, including at the Eurogroup meeting of June 16, the Commission acknowledges that Greece has delivered on …
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August 8, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Ιn his address to the nation following the major wiretapping scandal, Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that that bugging the mobile of PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Andoulakis was “legal” but a mistake “politically.” In his 6-minute speech three days after the scandal broke out and a relaxed weekend in his …
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August 5, 2022
Greece, Politics
The head of Greece’s National Intelligence Service (EYP) and the secretary general of the Prime Minister’s office stepped down on Friday following persistent media reports of the wiretapping of the phone of a journalist as well as the leader of opposition party PASOK-KINAL. The first resignation was submitted by the …
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May 23, 2022
Economy
The European Commission gave the green light for the disbursement of 748 million euros to Greece from the Eurogroup, based on the 14th report of post-memorandum enhanced surveillance that was released on Tuesday. In the report, the Commission noted that Greece has taken the necessary steps to reach the agreed …
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April 7, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Refugees
An electronic surveillance network will safeguard Greece’s borders to Turkey at the region of Evros. Equipped with radars and cameras, the network installation is underway and will include eleven pillars along the Evros river in Greece’s North-East. The 11 pillars are along the river and the cameras have a range …
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January 22, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s Health Ministry will set up a nationwide surveillance and alert network for Covid-19 mutations, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias announced on Friday, following an emergency meeting with top epidemiologists and the President of the Biomedical Research Foundation of the Athens’ Academy (IIBEAA). Responding to scientists’ concerned over the mutated strains …
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November 1, 2018
Economy
The International Monetary “Fund has no longer a financial arrangement or program with Greece, so clearly the main interaction now is between EU partners and Athens,” the Fund’s spokesperson Jerry Rice said on Thursday. He added that the IMF continues to participate by providing assistance with surveillance. “In general, this …
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July 12, 2018
Greece, Politics
The Greek Ministry of Defence has announced two programmes for the acquisition of surveillance equipment, to be co-funded by the European Union (EU). The first programme, managed by the Hellenic Navy, concerns the acquisition of up to six electro-optical sensor systems for the service’s eight Sikorsky S-70B-6 Aegean Hawk helicopters, …
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July 11, 2018
Economy
The European Commission has adopted the decision to activate the enhanced surveillance framework for Greece to support the implementation of agreed reforms following the successful conclusion of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) stability support program as of 20. August 2018. In a statement released on Wednesday, the Commission praised first …
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June 22, 2018
Economy
The atmosphere on Friday morning is good. Greece’s creditors cheer, international and even German media hail the Eurogroup deal as “‘end of the Greek crisis”, “Greece exits the bailout” and “the Greek debt is sustainable.” But the Eurogroup of the 19 finance ministers did not give Greece a debt relief. …
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June 16, 2018
Economy
“If prior actions are completed, the Eurogroup next week will decide on final disbursement to Greece and possibly on additional debt relief,” managing director of European Stability Mechanism, Klaus Regling said on Saturday. In a lengthy interview with daily Ta Nea, Regling unfolded some aspects of the Greek issue. “We …
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April 17, 2018
Economy
“No more memoranda for Greece,” European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs, Pierre Moscovici said in an interview with the European Progressive Forum. “Greece will become, in economic terms, a normal European country once again.” Moscovisi stressed adding however, that “Greece’s economic policies will be monitored through the …
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April 12, 2018
Uncategorized
As US, France and UK are beating the war drums for Syria and strikes are considered a matter of times, if not of hours, US spy aircraft arrived on the island of Crete. The two US Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Surveillance manned aircraft landed at “Nikos Kazantzakis” airport of Heraklion in …
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March 31, 2017
Economy
Greece launches a new Super-Weapon, a powerful application against tax evasion. Audits will go back to 2002. The software will automatically trace tax evaders, crosschecking bank deposits and tax declarations. Within just two minutes. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos presented on Thursday the new tool that is activated in the hope …
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