Berlin will give Greece 100 old Marder IFVs owned by arms-maker Rheinmetall, even as Athens will send to Ukraine Soviet-style BMP IFVs, Reuters quoted a defence source as saying.
Operation of Parliament’s web mail was immediately suspended in order to protect users’ accounts and competent supervisory authorities were apprised of the incident. The Informatics Directorate [of Parliament] is in direct, close cooperation with authorities.
The Greece-Bulgaria joint venture was launched nearly a decade ago and has been touted as a substantial move in pursuing Greece’s role as a regional energy hub.
On the day of Justice Sakellaropoulou’s election to the highest public office in the land the prime minister must have felt vindicated by the very positive reactions
'I look forward to a society that respects the rights described in the Constitution, the UN Charter of Fundamental Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights,' the president elect and Council of State chief justice said.
By all appearances, we are dealing with a political-judicial conspiracy that aimed to manufacture guilty parties and annihilate political enemies.
The time has come for the entire political system to realise that it cannot keep undermining the foundations upon which democracy rests.
The political favours passed in Parliament during the last days of the Tsipras administration brutally wounded democracy and shook the trust of the people.
Conservative austerity versus SYRIZA social benefits and relief for the vulnerable is the ruling party’s new Manichaean political dilemma for voters.
SYRIZA for years condemned the attachment to bills of completely irrelevant addenda but it appears to have discovered along the way that it is convenient.
The case was closed for lack of evidence for four of the ten politicians who were targeted and probed. The same is expected to happen for another five.
The ruling majority insisted on a series of demagogic and populist proposed amendments supposedly in the name of participatory democracy.
Polakis threatened the country’s central banker that he would stage a sit-in in his office if he did not order a probe of other loans take out by other politicians and political parties.
Perish the thought that Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis was recording the conversation in which he threatened Greece’s central banker.
Second and third-class individuals without substance, without principles, and with obvious deficiencies jump from party to party and from parliamentary group to parliamentary group out of pure self-interest.
The majority on the ratification vote was comprised of SYRIZA’s 145 MPs and eight more independents.
Renegade Independent Greeks MP Papachristopoulos resigned his parliamentary seat which goes to Deputy Foreign Minister Terence Kouik.
There is no precedent for the current catfights between MPs in parliament and on television that have debased public dialogue and the Parliament.
The permanent representatives of the 29 Nato member-states today signed the Accession Protocol for Macedonia.
Those in power did not and do not believe in the autonomy of institutions, nor in the separation of powers and freedom of the press.