Pavlos Polakis

Greek MP Pavlos Polakis was silenced in Parliament on Monday as his microphone was switched off by the chairman during a debate on a new development bill. The incident occurred as Polakis, a former deputy Health Minister of the leftist...

The Greek parliament on Wednesday voted to rescind the parliamentary immunity of former minister Pavlos Polakis, who has been accused of illegally recording a private telephone conversation with Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras. Polakis, a controversial deputy Health Minister...

Ever since the administration of Alexis Tsipras resigned and called for early elections, now scheduled for July 7, Greece's Syriza and New Democracy Parties have been in a state of pre-election war with each other. The departing party claims that...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday defended his minister Pavlos Polakis, who had earlier launched a crude verbal attack on social media against an opposition politician who uses a wheelchair. Polakis accused the 34-year-old New Democracy candidate Stelios Kymbouropoulos, who...

Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras on Tuesday called for the intervention of judicial authorities over the recording of a telephone call with a government minister which was leaked to a news site. In an angry press release, Stournaras called...

Yiannis Stournaras, the governor of the Bank of Greece, called a meeting on Monday between his bank's officials and those from Attica Bank. In question is Attica Bank's recent personal loan to Greek Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis. It was disclosed following...

EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety launched a verbal attack on Monday against  Greek deputy health minister Pavlos Polakis for smoking in public. Vytenis Andrikaitis, who is visiting Athens, held up a 2016 photo of Polakis smoking during a press conference in...

Senior members of the Greek judiciary have strongly criticized the government for undermining rule of law. The prestigious Association of Judges and Prosecutors of Greece accused ministers of "dangerous logic" when viewing the judiciary as merely creating "institutional barriers." In a...

New Democracy MPs and SYRIZA ministers on Wednesday turned the Greek Parliament into an arena, accusing each other of corruption and clientelism in the health sector. Deputy Health Minister Pavlos Polakis and former health minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis of the ruling...

. Protesting public health system workers shut the entrance of the ministry of health premises by building a cement tile wall and posting a sign saying "We have moved to Brussels." Doctors, nurses and public hospital staff found this inventive way...