Greece

When King Paul entrusted Konstantinos Karamanlis to form a government on October 5, 1955 after the death of Prime Minister Alexandros Papagos, one of Greece's greatest modern national leaders made his first appearance on the national stage. He was...

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...

Greek Prosecutor Maria-Sophia Vaitsi called for the indictment of United States former agent William Bazil who is implicated in the phone tapping scandal of 2004 and the Pythia Plan, an assassination plot against former conservative prime minister Kostas Karamanlis. There...

German newspaper Handelsblatt's article, titled "The Scapegoat of Greece" casts the spotlight on the prosecution of Andreas Georgiou, the former chief of Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) by the Greek justice system. The article states that Greek politicians are seeking...

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 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...

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...

"PRIME MINISTER KARAMANLIS AND OPPOSITION LEADER PAPANDREOU, THE MEN WHO SPEAK FOR THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF GREEKS, SEEM TO AGREE ON ONE THING AT LEAST -- THAT GREECE IS A NATION IN SEARCH OF AN IDENTITY. GEOGRAPHICALLY ON THE...

A meeting between current New Democracy leader and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and former New Democracy leader and Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis took place yesterday at a central Athens restaurant. The two men arrived at the restaurant from different...

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...

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...

Angelos Filippidis, the former head of Hellenic Postbank who was arrested in Istanbul after Greek authorities said he was wanted in connection with a bad loan scheme at the failed state bank he ran, made a statement in front of...

On Tuesday morning Nikolaos Martis passed away at the age of 98. He was a former minister of Northern Greece and close aide to Constantine Karamanlis. Martis was born in 1915 in Mousttheni, a village located in Kavala in northern...

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...

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...