Parliament

After the ministerial council’s General Secretary Panagiotis Baltakos was forced to resign from his post, the controversial anti-racism bill will be...

The nationwide federation of port employees OMYLE and the union of permanent and cadet port officers of the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) are preparing to...

The discussion over the opposition’s motion against the President of Parliament, which was initiated on Sunday after SYRIZA’s motion against Finance Minister Stournaras...

The coalition government managed to pass its critical multi-bill, which encompasses the recent agreement with the troika, through Parliament late on Sunday evening...

The chief of SYRIZA’s Administrative Reform sector Alexis Mitropoulos issued a scathing criticism of the coalition government’s draft multi-bill which incorporates the...

The "multi-bill" currently being drafted, which includes a series of changes that the coalition government and the troika recently agreed upon, will have a drastic...

The President of Parliament Evangelos Meimarakis has formally approved the formation of a special parliamentary committee which will be assigned on...

MPs Chrysoula Maria Giatagana and Konstantinos Giovanopoulos have formally informed the President of Parliament Evangelos Meimarakis that they have...

The leader of the opposition and president of SYRIZA Alexis Tsipras had formally requested that the recent agreement struck between the coalition government...

The rumored 50% reduction of the state funding towards political parties has prompted opposition leaders SYRIZA to issue a statement condemning such a...

An unnamed senior officer at the Ministry of Finances revealed that the coalition government will initiate discussions regarding the reduction of Greece’s...

The Deputy Minister of Environment Makis Papageorgiou revealed that the draft bill providing the split of DEI into two companies, the smaller of which is to be ...

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kyriakos Gerontopoulos has submitted a list of payments made out by the Agency for International Development ...

The privatization process for the Port Authority of Piraeus (OLP) will be discussed today in Parliament, with the MPs expected to formally announce the initiation of the sale via TAIPED, while the nationwide federation of dockyard employees OMYLE goes on a 24-hour strike in protest. The Minister of Shipping Miltiadis Varvitsiotis is expected to appear […]

A group of 42 SYRIZA MPs have demanded from the Ministers of Transport, Justice and Public Order to repeal the recent hike in tolls, which sparked violent protests in Oropos. The Opposition MPs claim that “the government has deceived the Greek people once one and carried out excessive hikes” and cited comments from the Minister […]

From the stand in Parliament the Deputy Minister of Finances Christos Staikouras repeated his claim that the primary surplus will exceed the government’s initial expectations and stressed that after being certified in April, it will pave the way for reducing the debt “by any means necessary”. Mr. Staikouras explained that the troika predicts that the […]

The state privatization fund TAIPED convened yesterday and finalized its plans regarding the sale of a 67% stake in the Port Authority of Piraeus (OLP). After finalizing the plans, TAIPED will send a copy of the terms of the sale to Parliament for consideration. A few weeks ago the Ministry of Shipping decided to include […]

The Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is scheduled to meet with the families and representatives of the three officers who lost their lives during the military crisis that took place at the Imia islet eighteen years ago. During the 1996 military crisis between Greece and Turkey over the Aegean islet, a Greek Navy helicopter crashed over […]

It would appear that humor is currently in short supply in the Greek Parliament, since many did not quite pick up on SYRIZA MP Manolis Glezos’ sarcastic attitude when he derided a rumored New Democracy proposal to form a coalition government in future election. Mr. Glezos stated that “regarding the proposal we received, it shows […]

The Budget Office of Parliament published a progress report regarding the financial developments in Greece and the Eurozone, where it is revealed that Greece has not yet overcome their serious financial problems. As a result, new fiscal rules in the Eurozone are necessary. The report is based on the intention of Greece remaining within the […]