Costas Simitis

Fofi Gennimata was elected as the 5th PASOK President with 51% of the votes. The election took place during the party's 10th conference. On Sunday morning, June 14, party members and friends cast their votes in order to determine who...

Former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis and current PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos condemned former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos as witnesses at the Court of Appeals on Wednesday. Tsochatzopoulos, who serves a lengthy sentence for money laundering, has made an appeal...

It was an awkward moment when former PASOK Ministers, including Prime Minister Costas Simitis, met at the Court of Appeals as witnesses in the trial of former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos who is imprisoned for receiving substantial armament kickbacks. Simitis,...

Former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis, PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos, and former Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defence (KYSEA) members who were active during the period that Akis Tsochatzopoulos served as the Greek National Defense Minister were called...

The Greek prosecutor handling former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos' appeal has requested to summon the members of the Government Council of Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) during his tenure. The prosecutor requested that the court summons former Prime Minister Costas Simitis, former...

Michalis Christoforakos is among the 64 people who are summoned to appear before an Appeals Court, accused of being involved in the bribery scandal between Siemens and Greek state-owned telecommunications company OTE that rocked Greece nearly ten years ago. The 64 suspects...

Tabling bills under emergency procedures -- a practice abused in the last parliamentary period -- will not be repeated in this Parliament, nor can the practice of attaching amendments to entirely unrelated bills, Greece 's Parliament president Zoi Konstantopoulou...

His opinion that Europe has lost the necessary balance between the markets and state institutions expressed Former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis in an article published in Greek newspaper "Efimerida Ton Syntakton." As he highlighted, ever since the northern European...

After the January 25 Greek elections, the government and political parties "will have to shape our own European cooperation policy and initiate serious talks with our partners," Former Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis commented earlier today. In a written statement,...

Since the restoration of democracy in 1974, Greek high school students have become guinea pigs as 22 different Education Ministers - two of them twice - have tried to implement reforms that would put their name in history rather...