Vyron Polydoras
Greece
Greece's Major Parties Clash Again, as TV Licensing Soap Opera Continues
The Greek government has decided on a clever political manoeuvre in order to perpetuate the television licensing war with the main opposition. They proposed Vyron Polydoras for president of the National Council for Radio and Television. A name that...
Greece
Government's Efforts to Appoint Vyron Polydoras as NCRTV Chief at Deadlock
The government's proposal for Vyron Polydoras as chief of the National Council of Radio and Television (NCRTV) has come to a deadlock as one opposition party after the other rejected the candidacy. The initial reactions make it clear that...
Greece
Opposition Parties Against SYRIZA's Choice of Vyron Polydoras as TV Watchdog Chief
The government's choice of Vyron Polydoras as head of the National Council of Radio and Television (NCRTV) met with staunch criticism and opposition. Polydoras was former heavyweight in the main opposition New Democracy party, having served as minister for public order...
Greece
Greek Government Proposes Vyron Polydoras as Chief of NCRTV
Lawmaker Vyron Polydoras, the former conservative New Democracy (ND) public order and justice minister of Greece from 2006-2007, in the first cabinet of Kostas Karamanlis is the ruling SYRIZA party's choice to lead the National Council of Radio and...
Greece
New Democracy's Marx Brothers For Mayor
Next to watching a Marx Brothers movie, nothing is as entertaining these days as watching Greece's New Democracy Capitalists running around like Keystone Cops trying to figure out who's in charge and who's doing what to who and why...
Greece
Yet Another Greek Splinter Party
Two former members of New Democracy who were ejected from the ruling party after refusing to obey orders to vote for austerity measures have joined forces to create their own party, another in a grouping of challengers to the...
Economy
As PASOK Reels, Samaras Says No Elections
Greek Prime Minister got his narrow wins in new property taxes and mortgage foreclosures from Parliament, but it has driven up worry in the ruling coalition parties of his New Democracy Conservatives and their partner, the PASOK Socialists, that...
Economy
Samaras Boots Polydoras For Defiance
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras swiftly ejected New Democracy lawmaker Vyron Polydoras from the party on Dec. 21 after his deputy, defying orders to vote for a unified property tax bill that puts new assessments on farmers, opposed it.
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Economy
Foreclosures, Taxes Cost Coalition An MP
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' coalition - his New Democracy Conservatives and partner the PASOK Socialists - got narrow victories from the Parliament on Dec. 21 when lawmakers voted for a new unified property tax that hits farmers, and...