08.04.2022
Editorial: Focusing on the truth
Ukraine is waging a battle for democracy, against authoritarianism and the mentality that gave birth to Nazism. Let this be the message we keep from Zelensky’s remarks.
Greek Parliament
07.06.2021
Editorial: Changes
One might look at the labour bill as a great wager for the government, not only because it will count its forces as it measures the reactions of the opposition.
15.04.2021
Editorial: In-depth investigation needed
The ex-justice minister maintains that the last-minute approval of the Penal Code by Parliament in 2019 determined the timing of elections as they were postponed for one week to pass it into law.
24.06.2020
Editorial: Judiciary
Certainly individuals who have been implicated such as [former digital policy minister Nikos] Pappas and [former alternate justice minister Dimitris] Papangelopoulos must testify.
29.04.2020
Editorial: Toning down the rhetoric
The country is being tested as is Greek society with major crises such as the concomitant public health and economic crises.
26.02.2020
Editorial: The moment of truth
The testimony of protected witnesses in the parliamentary probe of Dimitris Papangelopoulos’ alleged meddling in the Novartis investigation shed light on the apparent ulterior motives in one of the darkest affairs since the fall of the junta
22.01.2020
President-elect Sakellaropoulou to focus on defending rights, sovereignty
The inter-party consensus in election included New Democracy, main opposition SYRIZA, and the centre-left Movement for Change. Many expressed hopes that this political consensus may be maintained .
09.12.2019
Editorial: Duty
The recognition of the right of Greeks abroad to vote in Greek elections should be the first step in the direction of more broadly based suffrage.
18.07.2019
Parliament Speaker Tasoulas elected with record 283 votes in 300-member legislature
A lawyer by training, Tasoulas served as Culture and Athletics Minister in the New Democracy government of Antonis Samaras.
15.07.2019
Editorial: Responsibility
In order for the country to transcend the crisis on a solid footing it must definitively abandon the dysfunctions of the past.
04.03.2019
Athens, Ankara begin talks on confidence-building measures
'We are reacting always with prudence and strategic calm to the provocations in the Aegean. The number of violations of our national airspace and territorial waters has reached a high level.'
09.02.2019
Greece ratifies North Macedonia’s Nato accession
The majority was comprised of SYRIZA’s 145 MPs and eight more independents including MPs of the former Potami party parliamentary group.
08.02.2019
Kammenos expels MP, triggers dissolution of parliamentary group
The Papachristopoulos saga with his on again off again resignation was spurred by the MPs decision to break the party line on three crucial votes.
02.02.2019
Editorial: Degradation
This government systematically attempted to manipulate democratic institutions, including the judiciary.
01.02.2019
SYRIZA wants parliamentary rule change to benefit Kammenos
According to Greek Parliamentary rules, for a political party to be recognised as a parliamentary group it must have five MPs elected on its ticket.
25.01.2019
Tsipras hails new era as Parliament ratifies Prespa Agreement
There were 153 yeas, 146 nays, and one MP who declared himself present. The 145 MPs of ruling SYRIZA were joined by eight independent MPs and some from smaller parties.
24.01.2019
Editorial: First time
The ruling party revealed to MPs for the first time that the amendments to the Constitution of FYROM will come into effect only after the Greek Parliament ratifies the protocol on FYROM’s admission to Nato.
23.01.2019
Parliament demands full amended text of FYROM’s Constitution
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said it is inconceivable for the agreement to be ratified without parliament having been given the complete text of FYROM’s Constitution with the amendments stipulated in the accord.
