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“I received visits from Mr. Petsitis in his official capacity as the representative of the services of Maximos Mansion (the PM’s office).”

Was there a transfer of illegal campaign and other contributions in order to serve Lavrentiadis?

In parliament yesterday, tAlexis Tsipras resorted to the familiar tactic that characterises his government, to attack the media that do not pledge allegiance to those in power.  

'It [Cyprus] being drawn into U.S. and NATO plans in the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East will inevitably lead to dangerous and destabilising consequences for Cyprus itself,' declared Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

The Office of the Prime Minister has avoided taking a stand on the works and days of an individual who is in Mr. Tsipras’ circle and who even struck jovial poses pretending to be the PM in a photo in Maximos’ Mansion

In ignoring the pleas of the academic community, the state is failing to uphold basic rights such as the unhindered transmission of knowledge and the free exchange of ideas.

It would be disastrous for the government to create yet another crisis within a crisis through a new round of imprudent policies.

Tsipras is underlining the need for improved bilateral ties so as to “stably build the basis of the two countries’ cooperation after nearly five years of inertia in their relations”.

The motive force of nationalism is insecurity about identity. Greece has a strong identity and knows how to behave calmly and prudently in the Balkan tinderbox.

Political normalcy requires clears rules of the game. It means that a government does not live and breathe only with elections in mind, without setting their date.

The term used by FYROM's PM implies that the Greek part of the geographical territory of Macedonia (including Thessaloniki) is unliberated and cut off from the state of FYROM

Not only has the government invested politically in the peddling of scandals, it has based its survival on it. That explains why it tirelessly serves this political tack, often in violation of the separation of powers

Alavanos said that the social benefits and handouts announced by Tsipras are a pittance in comparison to wage and pension cuts and the disastrous effect of over-taxation.

It would be a potentially fatal error for society to believe that the economy is back on track. In fact, there is a long road ahead.

'An economic policy grounded on over-taxation has an expiration date and an economic development model based exclusively on consumption and imports is by its very nature skewed.'

The problem is the PM's untrammeled pledges of handouts, the en masse civil service hiring, and the salary hikes for those affiliated with the ruling party.

According to the 10-page report drafted by coroner Sokratis Tsantiris, published by Vice Greece, Kostopoulos stopped breathing due to the blows to the body, and there were blows that proved decisive in bringing about his death.

'The motivations of the pre-electoral period should not lead us into adventures that are analogous to what we experienced and paid for in 2015,' the ex-PM said.

The merger of the two companies' tanker fleets under joint management sends ripples across international shipping

Eurobank is trying to craft its own solution to the looming problem, while the Greek government is focused on a national approach to expediting the resolution of NPLs.

New Democracy is demanding explanations from the PM about why three ministers allegedly acted to benefit convicted businessman Lavrentis Lavrentiadis at the state's expense.

On the crucial question, “Which party will bring economic growth?” New Democracy leads ruling SYRIZA by a whopping 30 percentage points.

No one expected that Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose governance has been viewed positively until now, would join the club of those disputing European unification.

Mitsotakis asked Tsipras if he agrees with his education minister, Kostas Gavroglu, who said recently that the answer to campus violence is a “robust student movement”.

In 2019, the debt of the Central Government is projected to be 346.2mn euros, or 179.6 percent of GDP, a 12.8 percentage point reduction as compared to 2018.

The aim of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government is clear. It wants to win over as many social groups and strata as possible so as to avert an electoral trouncing.

By Nikos Hasapopoulos  When the European Commission decides to establish a “spy academy” in Greece, what comes to mind? It may be spies like James Bond”. Perhaps it would be John Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, which was turned into a movie in 1965? Or would it be the great […]

The calibre of the Athens Polytechnic is now recognised by top American universities, such as Columbia. That is why the two universities will for the first time collaborate on the undergraduate level in order to grant joint degrees.

Simitis has unwittingly been transformed into a symbol of resistance against all those who, armed with fake news and fetid propaganda, dream of becoming the Maduros or Erdogans of Greece.

The majority report of a parliamentary committee investigating possible scandals in the state’s procurement of medicines and vaccines has recommended a further judicial probe of the case.

Acts of violence besmirch and desecrate an anniversary that should be an occasion for a democratic rallying cry, and not division.

The Greek corporate scandal that was brought to light by the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Piraeus’ Akti Miaouli – Dimitris Melissanidis’ “leap” from Piraeus to the Emirate of Fujairah in the Arabian Peninsula – produced direct charges of embezzlement of $300mn by the Ernst and Young auditing committee. US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt cooperated with the investigation – Meanwhile, Spyros Fokas, the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Aegean, who has been removed but faces heavy charges, has stayed on as First Vice-President of OPAP, Greece’s leading gaming company

How did happen that Antonis Papadimitriou was able to “ostracise” everyone, and to now act as the great and sole manager of the huge estate of Aristotle Onassis, bargaining with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to secure his dominance in the fields of health, education, and letters and culture. It is unheard of not to have a member of the Onassis family in the Foundation that bears his name.