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Giorgos Papandreou Puts Historical Family House on the Market
The former Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou decided to put the historic family villa on the market. The Mineiko house is a villa of 320 cm2, on Gyzi street, in Palaio Psychiko and is the house where Georgios Papandreou...
Crime
First Instance Court Commences Civil Suit of Navy Officer Against Former PM Papandreou Over Pre-Election Pledges
On Thursday a First Instance Court discussed a civil lawsuit filed by a retired Lieutenant of the Navy against former prime minister George Papandreou, in which he is requesting compensation totaling 260,000 euros for moral damage suffered from the latter’s...
Greece
Former Greek PM Papandreou Proposes a New Referendum for Exiting the Crisis
The leader of the Movement of Democrats Socialists, Giorgos Papandreou, has proposed a new referendum in which the Greek people would decide on how the new government will negotiate the debt.
Mr. Papandreou stressed that the referendum would give the...
Greece
Papandreou and Venizelos Address Event Marking 40 Years of PASOK
Former PASOK President and Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou and current Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Evangelos Venizelos attended the event marking the party’s 40th anniversary. The main event, on September 3 at Zappeion Hall, will not be attended...
Greece
Loverdos Back to Pasok, Papandreou Back to Politics
Greek Education Minister Andreas Loverdos confirmed on Thursday that he will soon be returning to PASOK party.
“It is a given that I will return to PASOK’s parliamentary group,” said the Minister, who quit the socialists in 2012 to form his...
Economy
Papandreou Claims Primary Surplus Was His Doing, Blasts Samaras
More than two years after he was hounded out of office by protests, strikes and riots over austerity measures he imposed on the orders of international lenders, former Prime Minister George Papandreou said he laid the groundwork for a...
Crime
Papandreou Refuses To Testify On Lagarde List
Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has for the second time sent a Parliamentary committee investigating a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts a note reiterating that he knew nothing about and that he won’t return from...
Greece
Papandreou's Deposition Leaves Lawmakers Cold
Saying they weren't satisfied with a written deposition in which he claimed to know nothing about a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts that was in the hands of his appointed finance minister, a parliamentary committee again...
Crime
Papandreou Denies Knowing Lagarde List
After refusing to appear in person, former Prime Minister George Papandreou has sent a written deposition to a parliamentary committee investigating the mishandling of a list of 2,062 Greeks with $1.95 billion in secret Swiss bank accounts that was...
Economy
Papandreou, Loverdos Spar Over Bailout Claims
A former minister in then Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's Cabinet in 2010 said he and two other colleagues were opposed to the bailout the Premier sought from the International Monetary Fund, an assertion that Papandreou said was untrue.
Andreas...
Economy
Papandreou Denies Mother On Swiss Bank List
Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and his mother have denied reports in the Greek media that she's behind the name of a civil servant with 550 million euros ($714 million) in deposits in a Swiss bank, with the...
Greece
Former Minister Giorgos Katsifaras Passes Away at 77
ATHENS - Former Greek minister George Katsifaras, who held a number of key positions in PASOK administrations, passed away on August 8 at the age of 77. He had undergone surgery at at Evangelismos Hospital.
"George Katsifaras was ... a...
Greece
Former PM Papandreou Conflict with Former Greece's IMF Representative Heats Up
A heated conflict between former Greek Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou and Greece’s former representative to the International Monetary Fund, Panagiotis Roumeliotis has attracted media attention in our country.
The arguement came as a result of Roumeliotis’ statements when accused by...
Economy
Greek Prosecutor Wants Papandreou Investigated
ATHENS – Former Prime Minister George Papandreou should be investigated to see if there was any wrongdoing in how he handled the country’s economic crisis and imposed waves of pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and layoffs of public...
Greece
Papandreou Meets Venizelos- Papadimos- Zanias
Greek PM George Papandreou hold a meeting with FinMin Evangelos Venizelos and adviser Lukas Papadimos in Prime Minister’s office in Parliament, according to sources.
President of Council of Economic Advisors Giorgos Zanias also attends the meeting.
Although the meeting was underway,...