40 of the passengers of the blazing ship near Corfu are missing!
New uncertainty is creating around the tragedy with the ship “Norman Atlantic”. Citing the Greek Ministry of Maritime, Greek media say that the fate of 40 passengers from the ship is unknown. According to information, the passenger count after the full evacuation of the...
Four new victims on “Norman Atlantic”
Greek Minister of Maritime Miltiadis Varvitsiotis confirmed that Italian rescue services found four dead passengers in the water surrounding the ship “Norman Atlantic”. The information was first announced by one of the rescued passengers who claimed to have seen four lifeless bodies when leaving...
Greece heads towards snap elections on 25 January
Greek Parliament didn’t vote a president even in the third final round of elections for head of state. Greek MPs chose early elections instead of a president and replacement for the President Karolos Papoulias.
In the following days, by order of the current President Papoulias,...
One dead, 156 passengers extracted from “Norman Atlantic”
The tragedy on “Norman Atlantic”, which caught on fire at sea near the island of Corfu this morning, claimed its first victim. The spokesman of the Greek Ministry of Maritime, citing information confirmed by the Italian Coast Guard, reported that one man died during...
Greece: A bit of Christmas, a lot of politics
In Greece continues political uncertainty and concerns among the Government for the third vote for head of state. Greek Government spends its Christmas holidays in continuous secret negotiations, lobbying and in an effort to acquire votes of independent MPs and MPs from the opposition...
Dimas: If Golden Dawn votes for me, I will resign
Support for Stavros Dimas by two former members of the Golden Dawn raised comments on the neo-Nazi support for the government candidate. At the same time, there were speculations in the Greek media that it is possible the neo-Nazi party to make a turn...
Greece didn’t elect President in the second round
The second round of voting in the Greek Parliament didn’t bring a president. 168 out of 300 MPs voted for Stavros Dimas. 131 MPs were against, and one MP was absent. The third round, scheduled for 29th of December, will be decisive.
Besides the 155...
Samaras’ proposal brought three new sure votes for Dimas
Three more independent MPs of the Greek Parliament will vote for Stavros Dimas at tomorrow’s second round of presidential election. Independent MPs Vassilis Economou and George Kurakos decided to support the candidate of New Democracy and PASOK after Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras proposed...
Samaras offers reshufle and elections in 2015 if Dimas is elected
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras promised expansion of the governing coalition and a potential agreement for elections in 2015 in exchange for a national consensus to elect a president till 29th of December. In order to calm down the political tension that has created...
Bribery, scandals and video tapes in Greece
New political scandal in Greece after the accusations of the MP of Independent Greeks, Pavlos Haikalis, for the attempt of buying of votes for the election of president. After the announcement of the Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras that he is preparing a lawsuit...
Will Samaras find 20 MPs for 12 days?
President or early parliamentary elections in January. This is the attitude of the Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras after the first round of voting for president in the Greek Parliament. Samaras has no plans to change the candidate, nor seems willing to accept the...
Greek polls: SYRIZA ahead of New Democracy
SYRIZA opposition is ahead of New Democracy in all new surveys of the Greek media. As the race between the Government and opposition tightens in the wake of 17th of December and the first voting for an Assembly President, Greek media are increasingly carrying...
Samaras attacked Tsipras with the name dispute
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras used even the name dispute as an attack weapon in the election showdown with SYRIZA.
In part of his column in the weekly “Real News”, Samaras indirect appeals to right-wing MPs not to vote for a party that would allow...
Taxi driver from Kochani released from the police station in Polikastro
The taxi driver from Kochani, who was caught up in the floods near Kilkis, is released by the Greek police authorities and will return to Macedonia shortly.
The Kochani citizen yesterday was part of a human tragedy in Greece when, due to bad weather, his...
Serbia has to normalize relations with Kosovo to join EU
Before entering the European Union, Serbia should fully normalize relations with Kosovo, and it would be confirmed by a legally binding document, said Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz in an interview with NIN.
- It isn’t in the interest of the EU to fully accept...
Samaras proposed Dimas to succeed Papoulias
Stavros Dimas is the candidate of the governing coalition to succeed President Karolos Papoulias. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has just announced that the former Foreign Minister and former European Commissioner will run for the presidency on the early voting that are scheduled for...
Dachik: EU doesn’t request Serbia to recognize Kosovo
European Union hasn’t officially requested Serbia to recognize Kosovo, stated Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dachik.
- Serbia hasn’t changed its stance on recognizing Kosovo, nor the EU officially requested it - Dachik said, and also added that the official EU documents didn’t state that Serbia...
New controversial book in Bulgaria
New book by Temelko Neshkov was promoted on the Bulgarian market, in which, as reported by the Sofia news agency “Novinite.com”, “the suffering of the ethnic Bulgarians at the territory of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia after the Second World War” is represented.
According...
Samaras angry with London: Greek history cannot be shared or borrowed!
Greece is angry with the decision of the British Museum to borrow part of Parthenon Marbles to Russia. After the news caused numerous reactions at the social media, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras criticized and condemned the museum in London, who categorized the move...
Athens following the incident of Venizelos: US still haven’t forgiven us for the veto in Bucharest
The scandal with the absence of Evangelos Venizelos at the NATO ministerial meeting on account of the registration of Macedonia under its constitutional name caused reactions in the Greek media and raised a lot of dust. According to the Greek press, the decision Macedonia...
