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Former Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis: “Foolish Choice”

Former prime minister Costas Karamanlis broke a longstanding silence and severely criticized the Greek government’s “foolish choice.” “The nation’s most vital interests demand that the country remains at the heart of Europe. The EU’s actual shortcomings do not, in any...

Greek Intelligence Service Refutes Plot Involving Ex PM Karamanlis' Assassination

Documents from Greece's National Intelligence Service (EYP) intimating that the so called ''Pythia Plot" was a complete falsehood were leaked to the Greek press on Thursday. The ''Pythia Plot" was an alleged scenario involving the assassination of the former Conservative...

New Democracy President Election on Sunday Amid Rumors of Karamanlis Interventions

The reported telephone conversations of former prime minister Costas Karamanlis with Alexis Tsipras created controversy within New Democracy ahead of Sunday's election for the conservative party leadership. Furthermore, Karamanlis' reported verbal support of candidate Vangelis Meimarakis added more friction within...

Former PM Karamanlis Advises Greeks to Vote 'Yes'

Former Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis sent a televised message to Greeks on Thursday in an attempt to persuade them to vote "Yes" in Sunday's referendum. Karamanlis, currently a New Democracy Party MP and former Prime Minister from 2004 until 2009, admitted...

Karamanlis Re-Appears to Back New Democracy

Greek Former Prime Minister and previous New Democracy Conservative leader Costas Karamanlis, who disappeared from the political scene after losing the 2009 elections, has shown his face again at the behest of Greece 's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to...

Papandreou Blames Karamanlis, EU For Crisis

Former Greek premier George Papandreou has again cast the blame on the country's crushing economic crisis that occurred on watch from 2009-11 on the European Union for acting too slow to help, and on his predecessor, Costas Karamanlis, for...

Company Eavesdropping on Karamanlis

A consulting firm with almost zero turnover was used as a "shell" by Greek Americans in order to eavesdrop on our country. The interceptions continued after 2005, when revealed. A young man appeared as the  representative of the company, but...

Karamanlis' and Papandreou's Long-term Holidays

The two former Greek prime ministers, Costas Karamanlis and George Papandreou spend their holidays in opulent villas and suites, from plunging in the Aegean to trips abroad. Karamanlis, according to Proto Thema, traveled with his family around Southern Italy during...

Political Leaders Mark Karamanlis' Memory

Greek political leaders set aside their ideological differences to honor statesman and former Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis at the fouindation bearing his name as the the 15th anniversary of his death on April 23, 1998 is approaching. They came...

Stournaras Slams Papandreou, Karamanlis For Crisis

Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras, upbeat that Greece will begin to recover from its crushing economic crisis as soon as October, and said it could have been averted if former Prime Ministers George Papandreou and Costas Karamanlis had taken...

Former PM Karamanlis Responds to Vatopedi Case

Former prime minister Costas Karamanlis conveyed a written memorandum on Tuesday afternoon to a preliminary Parliamentary committee of inquiry convened to investigate the Vatopedi land swap furor, along with possible legal liabilities by ministers of the former government. According to...

Real Estate Scandal Summons Former PM Karamanlis to Testify

By Paris Karagounis The former MP George Voulgarakis' wife, Aikaterini Peleki was called on Monday by the 13th parliamentary committee.  The committee investigates the exchange of land between the corporation responsible for the use of the Greek state’s land and...

April 23, 2010: Ten Years Since the Official Beginning of the Greek Financial Crisis

It was a day much like this on April 23, 2010, when the then-Prime Minister of Greece George Papandreou announced from picturesque Castellorizo Island that Greece would officially ask for financial assistance from its fellow Eurozone member-states as the...

US Deputy Assistant Secretary Palmer: America Stands in Solidarity with Greece

The U.S. State Department's Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, Matthew Palmer, declared on Saturday from the border city of Alexandroupolis that "We are here to underscore our firm commitment to this project, to...

Government Meeting on Monday to Solve Samothrace Transportation Breakdown

Greece's State Minister George Gerapetritis will chair a meeting of ministers in Athens at Maximos Mansion on Monday to try to resolve the issue of transportation on the island of Samothrace, that left hundreds of tourists unable to reach...