Politics

MP Costas Kiltidis, elected to parliament on the main opposition New Democracy (ND) ticket, on Monday announced his withdrawal from the ND parliamentary group and his intention to become an independent MP. Kiltidis, a former deputy agricultural development minister, announced...

Greece is to face the first crucial test after the signing of the memorandum as EU, EUC and IMF fiscal experts arrive in Athens today. The Troika will audit the numbers ( revenues, state expenditures) and visit Ministries to...

This week is expected to be highly interesting regarding the Siemens scandal as the Inquiry Committee will look into the Hellenic Railways Company (HRC) file. Konstantinos Yiannakos, HRC chief advisor during the terms in office of Hristos Berelis and...

Two opinion polls appearing in an equal number of newspapers on Sunday indicated that Greek citizens rate the country's governments as falling below par. According to a Public Issue opinion poll appearing in the Sunday edition...

Dimitris Bitsas (photo) was re-elected secretary of SYN party Central Political Committee with 85 votes in favour and 40 blank as well as 19 members of the new Political Secretariat. The Left Unity won 10 seats, the Left Wave...

The Hellenic Telecommunications Organisation (OTE) President and CEO Panagis Vourloumis and another OTE executive were referred to a three-judge appellate felony court on Friday on breach of faith charges stemming from alleged over-charging on contracts signed by the telephony...

Finance minister George Papaconstantinou said on Friday that the second and third tranches of the EU-IMF support mechanism loans for the Greek economy are ensured. Speaking in parliament in reply to a current question tabled by Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS)...

Former PASOK minister Kostas Skandalides appeared Friday before the inquiry committee investigating the Siemens cash-for-contracts scandal out of his own free will. It was a press report whereby he had received a non-paper by Mihalis Christoforakos on why US...

The much awaited immigrants’ participation in municipal elections is a fact, following a new legislative amendment passed by the government. According to an interior ministry circular, all eligible immigrants can register untilAugust 31 2010– the previous deadline was June 30...

If the Athens austerity regime continues, this incredible mayor may starve himself to death. Elliniko's Christos Kortzidi (photo) has refused to eat since April 29 in protest against a plan to save money by combining dozens of cities. Several years ago...

With the investigation into the Siemens case being in full swing, the secretary of former Siemens Hellas CEO Mihalis Christoforakos, was called to testify before the parliamentary committee probing the case again. In the meantime, former Siemens executive Prodromos...

The Ministry of Education, Anna Diamantopoulou, signed the decision for the granting of authorization to the Centres of post-secondary education, the so-called “Colleges”. According to the decision, particular attention is given to the economical sustainability plan, as it is requested,...

The Libyan revolutionary leader, Mouamar Kadhafi, on Wednesday granted audience to the Greek Prime Minister, Gorges Papandreou, who arrived in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, for a visit. A Libyan source said during the audience with Kadhafi, the two leaders focused...

As part of the activities to include the Greek language as one of the official languages which will be taught in Australia, the Hellenic Studies Council undertook a political initiative. The council requested and achieved on June 7th 2010 two...

Tasos Mantelis, the former minister who admitted that he had accepted money from Siemens while he was a member of the PASOK government, appeared determined to remain in Greece and prove his innocence. The former minister reiterated that the...