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...
Search for missing plane to continue tomorrow
Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said that there is a possibility that the missing Malaysian plane, which was flying from Indonesia to Singapore with 162 people in it, crashed. Kalla, who leads the search and rescue operation, made these remarks 10 hours after Malaysian...
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...
Ukraine considers power cuts
Ukraine will be forced to implement additional power cuts if the temperature falls drastically, announced Prime Minister Arsenij Jacenjuk.
Until recently, Ukraine had enough electricity for its needs, but several months of fighting with pro-Russian separatists disrupted the supply of coal of the thermal power...
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...
Macedonian journalists will be able to report intimidation in Strasbourg
The new online platform which the Council of Europe prepared along with the European Federation of Journalists (EFN), Reporters without Borders and other international news organizations and through which European journalists can report any type of intimidation or assault, will be available to the...
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...
Russia assesses US sanctions as useless
Russia assessed US sanctions as useless and adds that it will respond to the measures, but didn’t specify how.
In today’s press release, Moscow says it will wait as long as it takes US to recognize the historical right to the Crimea peninsula, which this...
Another Macedonian citizen killed in Syria
Another Albanian from Macedonia, who was a member of the jihadists of the Islamic State, was killed in Syria. E.A. from Skopje Indzikovo, 23, went to fight the Syrian front three months ago. This is the 13th Macedonian citizen who died in battle in...
Soros and Strauss-Kahn main candidates for Director of the National Bank of Ukraine
Famous US billionaire George Soros could become head of the National Bank of Ukraine, reports Ukrainian TV “Channel 112”, citing sources close to the {resident Petro Poroshenko and the sources of the Verkhovna Rada.
Former Director of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is also...
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...
EU surprised by the statements of Erdogan
Federica Mogherini, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the European Union, at today’s press conference announced that she was very surprised by the statements of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. She said that when she was in Turkey last week, she had a very constructive...
Belgium paralyzed by strike against government austerity measures
The national strike organized by the joint front of all unions today completely paralyzed Belgium.
State institutions are not working, and the entrances of the private companies are blocked by the union boards from four o’clock this morning. The largest shopping center in Brussels is...
CIA ruined El-Masri’s life, and it didn’t even apologize
Khalid El-Masri is a completely ruined man, report global media. A decade after the CIA, with the assistance of Macedonian authorities, took him from Macedonia and to a secret detention center in Afghanistan, El-Masri hasn’t yet recovered.
Newspaper Sun Herald reported that the German of...
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...
