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DefMin Panos Kammenos Briefs White House Chief of Staff on Greek Issues

Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on Saturday briefed White House Chief of Staf Rience Priebus on Greek issues, a day after the inauguration of 45th U.S. President, Donald Trump. According to  mignatiou.com, Kammenos met with Priebus during a reception hosted...

Panos Kammenos: We Support a Viable Solution Which Will Safeguard National Rights

Greece will support any decisions made by the Republic of Cyprus and will stand by Nicosia for the achievement of a viable solution of the Cyprus problem which will safeguard national rights, Greek Minister of Defense Panos Kammenos has...

Kos Residents Attack Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos

Residents on the Greek island of Kos cannot bear the situation any longer. Over the last month, thousands of undocumented migrants and refugees have arrived on the island, however there is no place where they can be accommodated. The crowd...

Who is New Greek Defense Minister and ANEL Leader Panos Kammenos?

When Alexis Tsipras had announced that SYRIZA may cooperate with the Independent Greeks (ANEL) after the elections, most analysts and voters were perplexed. How could the radical leftists collaborate with the patriotic, church-loving, anti-immigration party led by former New...

Panos Kammenos Denies Sending Document to President

Panos Kammenos, the head of the Independent Greeks party - which came fourth in the May 6 polls - denied on Tuesday that he had sent a proposal to the Greek president on Monday outlining his position on the...

PM Tsipras' Relations With Ex-Ally Kammenos Tense

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sent a letter on Monday morning to Speaker of the Parliament Nikolaos Voutsis, urging him not to change the House’s regulations regarding the composition of parliamentary caucuses. Tsipras, in a move which escalated the already-tense relations between...

ANEL MP's Break with Kammenos' Request to Dissolve Coalition

Only two out of seven lawmakers from ANEL, the Independent Greek Party, backed party chief Panos Kammenos' request, which he made on Friday, to withdraw ANEL officials from their ministerial posts and dissolve the country's coalition government. With so few...

Defense Minister Kammenos Sued For Homophobic Verbal Abuse

Greek Minister of National Defense Panos Kammenos was sued on Thursday by the organization "Greek Helsinki Monitor" for his alleged homophobic verbal abuse of Georgios Amyras, an M.P from the centrist party ''To Potami''. Kammenos reportedly called Amyras ''little bride'' during a heated verbal exchange...

Crucial Coalition Meeting Between Tsipras, Kammenos Postponed

A greatly-anticipated meeting between Greek Premier Alexis Tsipras and his Defense Minister Panos Kammenos over the future of their coalition government has been postponed. Kammenos, the leader of the nationalist Independent Greek party (ANEL) had threatened to withdraw from the...

Coalition's Future at Stake With Tsipras/Kammenos Meeting

The Greek prime minister and president of the ruling left-wing SYRIZA party, Alexis Tsipras, will meet the defense Minister and president of the co-governing right-wing ANEL party, Panos Kammenos, on Friday. The talks will be held in a last-minute...

Turkish Foreign Minister Calls Greece's Kammenos "Spoiled Child"

Greece must do something about its “spoiled child” defense minister, Panos Kammenos, to avoid a military response by Turkish armed forces, Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, said on Wednesday. “We have a warning for Greece. You have a spoiled child...

Kammenos Warns ''We Will Crush'' Turkey

In response to the recent series of incursions and airspace violations committed by Turkish fighter jets over several Greek islands in the eastern Aegean Sea, Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos sternly warned Turkey against further violations of the country's integrity...

Kammenos Says FYROM Name Deal is Virtually Dead

The Prespa agreement between Athens and Skopje is coming to an end after the latest statements by FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, said Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos on Friday. Kammenos' statement came after recent comments made by Former Yugoslav...

Kammenos Says Greece and Egypt Are ''Axis of Stability''

Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos stated on Tuesday that both Greece and Egypt share a common vision to create an axis of stability in the southeast Mediterranean. Kammenos made his remarks as he spoke about the upcoming visit of Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah...

Kammenos Slams Erdogan Over 'Pirates of The Aegean' Remark

Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos slammed Turkish president Tayyip Erdogan on Monday after meeting with the U.S. ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt. Speaking with journalists outside of the country's Ministry of National Defense, Kammenos said that "Greece respects international law,...