Evangelos Meimarakis

On December 17, two months ahead of schedule, will finally be held the first ballot for the election of the new President of the Hellenic Republic, government spokeswoman Sophia Voultepsi announced earlier today. According to Voultepsi's written announcement, Greek Prime...

The talks between Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Vice PresidentEvangelos Venizelos at Maximos Mansion ended at around 11:00 a.m. today, but the two men declined to make announcements to the Press. Samaras and Venizelos discussed the negotiations with the...

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has told New Democracy MPs that he does not think Greece will go to snap elections early next year over the election of a new President of the Hellenic Republic. Speaking off the record to New...

Earlier today, Democratic Left (DIMAR) party leader Fotis Kouvelis informed the President of the Greek Parliament, Evangelos Meimarakis, of his decision to expel Grigoris Psarianos from the party’s parliamentary group.  DIMAR party spokesman, Andreas Papadopoulos has expressed, in a letter sent...

During  an event organised by the Cypriot parliament to mark the 40 years of the Turkish invasion, the House President Yiannakis Omirou stated that the difficult economic situation of Cyprus should not affect the course of the Cypriot problem. Omirou said that the national...

The floundering Democratic Left (DIMAR) which is essentially rudderless while trying to decide whether to accept the resignation of its leader Fotis Kouvelis, fell to 13 Members of Parliament on June 6 when one of its lawmakers, Vasilis Economou,...

The woes of Independent Greeks leader Panos Kammenos, whose party floundered in the European Parliament elections, continued on June 3 when he lost another lawmaker, the second in six days to quit. Mika Iatridi said she was leaving the party because...

Leftist SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has written to Parliament Speaker Evangelos Meimarakis demanding he allow a debate over a leaked video that showed a former top aide to Prime Minister Antonis Samaras alleging charges against the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn...

Greece's ongoing economic crisis has given Greeks more to be sour about,  especially the lack of service in public offices, with the country's Ombudsman reporting a 26 percent increase in the numbers complaining about public administration. That was the finding...

The marginal Independent Greeks party that is opposed to the terms of two bailouts given Greece lost two of its Members of Parliament who said on March 26 they were quitting. In a letter addressed to House Speaker Evangelos Meimarakis,...