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Personal information to which others should not be privy such as one’s body weight or whether one has a pet end up in the hands of companies which sell it to all and sundry.

It is a dishonour for any politician to invoke a law that protects ministers from prosecution by requiring that Parliament lift his or her parliamentary immunity.

The observation of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises [SEV] that the longer the pre-election period the greater the danger of a transient recession is noteworthy.  

'I did not and do not have ties with the public sector. I did not intertwine my interests with a party and politicians in order to hugely enlarge my business. My business is abroad. I serve Greece in global shipping,' Marinakis said about Sokratis Kokkalis.

Marinakis told Real FM in a no-holds barred interview that Pappas told him that he had briefed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras about the meetings and the request.

The more cynical among the government’s critics say that the placement of the statue aims to temper the huge backlash after the Prespa naming Agreement last year, which has decimated support for the ruling party in northern Greece

Hospitals cannot be turned into warehouses for children without families and children cannot grow up locked in a hospital just because the state lacks suitable facilities.

The government and the education minister are driving young people to the misery of unemployment in the name of petty partisan gain.

Prisons must ensure basic security and follow the basic tenets of humanism. Their goal must be the social re-integration of prisoners.

Members of the health ministry’s committee for the evaluation of medicines will be examined in order to determine whether they made decisions which illegally benefited Novartis

The government must act poste haste and implement all the reforms that are required in order to shield an economy that is hanging by a thread.

This country has suffered from nepotism, and unfortunately it has continued under SYRIZA rule.

Tsipras’ intervention at yesterday’s extraordinary EU summit on Brexit was revealed in a report by Bloomberg, which underlined that the Greek PM flipped the result of the referendum in July, 2015,

In democratic countries attempts to manufacture guilty parties do not go unpunished. Those responsible are held to account by the justice system.

The bill comes in the midst of a severe crisis in US-Turkey relations arising from Ankara’s decision to buy Russian S-400 missile systems and to strengthen its embrace of Moscow. The purchase is sanctionable under US law.

What remains to be seen is whether the government was unaware of the murky activities and ties between SYRIZA cadres on the one hand and Artemiou and Petsitis on the other.

Papadea said she had resigned from the management of the family business in 2015 and described the allegations against her as a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from the ongoing Novartis probe

The political consensus needed to wage the anti-corruption battle is being destroyed, and that in itself is a first-class scandal.

The Turkish defence minister said that Ankara seeks a dialogue at every level and conducts talks and contacts with its neighbours, but will give the necessary response if provoked.

There will be a university of the academic elite on the one hand and on the other faculties that are looked down upon, whose students will have no interest in the subject of their studies.

The management and shareholders of Diamond S Shipping ring the NYSE opening bell at the start of trading

'Human rights cannot be placed in a hierarchy. They are at the same level and are protected equally when they are violated,' said outgoing Commission president Yorgos Stavropoulos.

The so-called “Bridge” initiative to bring together SYRIZA and the centre-left failed because the bridge builders were people who were linked to SYRIZA.

Greece’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority has already sent a judicial assistance request to authorities in the Republic of Cyprus in an effort to uncover a possible money trail and the possible use of offshore companies.

Fresh data that show that 83,000 families had their electricity cut off in 2017 alone due to delinquent debt to the Public Power Corporation.

Zaev said he expected fresh Greek investments to exceed €500m. 'The Republic of North Macedonia will have huge economic benefits from the deal that I believe will be seen in every area of the economy,' Zaev said.

It is well known that authoritarian leaders who feel threatened domestically often resort to fueling nationalist sentiments so as to forge a new hegemony.

The Bank of Greece rang the alarm bells over the danger of fiscal derailment due to Greece’s Council of State rulings which deemed unconstitutional earlier pension cuts and the abolition of holiday bonuses.

The electoral horizon can be measured by opinion polls but also by the results of the European Parliament election in May.

The new law indefinitely freezes the transfer of these Greek minority properties which is normally the right of the rightful owner.

There is a fortuitous confluence of events for the Movement for Change as it has become apparent that SYRIZA’s opening to the centre-left is a failure.

The confusion in the commercial and business community of northern Greece is no coincidence and is not baseless.