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Greece
Greek Parliament Speaker Questions Validity of Past Bill Voting
Tabling bills under emergency procedures -- a practice abused in the last parliamentary period -- will not be repeated in this Parliament, nor can the practice of attaching amendments to entirely unrelated bills, Greece 's Parliament president Zoi Konstantopoulou...
Crime
Greek Student Still Missing After Almost a Month
Greece has been devastated by the disappearance of 20-year-old student Vangelis Giakoumakis, who has been missing for almost a month since February 6. Greek journalist and writer Elena Akrita addressed a letter to Greek Deputy Minister of Public Order,...
Economy
Greek Parliament Will Not Vote on Loan Agreement
The Greek government confirmed on Monday that the four-month loan extension agreement will not be submitted to parliament since it is not required.
SYRIZA parliamentary spokesperson Konstantinos Fylis said that MPs have an opportunity to discuss the agreement but not vote...
Greece
PASOK: Government's Refusal to Bring the Loan Agreement Extension to Parliament is a Violation of the Constitution
PASOK on Monday accused the government of a persistent refusal to bring the extension of the loan agreement to the Greek Parliament.
It also called on the government to publish on Monday –since the previous extension that was approved by...
Economy
KKE Leader Calls on Greek Govt to Bring Agreement to Parliament for Roll-Call Vote
The government not only did not table a law to abolish all Memoranda and their related laws to Parliament, but moved to a new agreement with the Troika of the country's creditors, Greek Communist Party (KKE) leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas...
Economy
New Democracy: The Agreement With the Lenders Needs to Be Ratified by Parliament
The four-month extension of the aid program to Greece should pass through the Greek Parliament, New Democracy spokesman on Friday said in a statement. “This is a decision that includes the loan agreement and the memorandum,” Karagounis noted.
He explained...
Economy
SYRIZA MPs Ask for Personal State Cars
One of Alexis Tsipras' first moves when he became prime minister was to cut state expenses by selling government vehicles used by politicians and cutting down on personal security for members of parliament. In general, he urged his cabinet...
Greece
Athens Rioters Burn Car, Set Trashcans on Fire
A group of antiestablishment individuals, who had earlier marched in downtown Athens, Greece, were involved in violent incidents around the National Polytechnic University late on Thursday, police said.
Around 300 people, who had rallied in downtown Athens around 6:00 p.m., marched...
Greece
The Five Absences from the Presidential Ballot and Mitsotakis' Statement that 'Froze' New Democracy
With a total of 233 votes the Greek Parliament elected Prokopis Pavlopoulos as the seventh President of the Hellenic Republic. Pavlopoulos was elected with the votes of coalition partners SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) as well as the support of his party,...
Greece
Prokopis Pavlopoulos: Who Is the New President of the Hellenic Republic?
The new President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, was elected today, February 18, by the Greek Parliament. Pavlopoulos was born in 1950 in Kalamata, Greece, where he finished his school studies. In 1968, he moved to the Greek...