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Serbia Slams Greece Over Kosovo’s Admission to the Council of Europe

Serbia's representative slammed Greece's rapporteur at the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe (CoE) for recommending that Kosovo be admitted to the European human rights body. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) overwhelmingly passed a report...

Prominent Greek Politician Dora Bakoyannis Reveals Cancer Diagnosis

Greek politician Dora Bakoyannis revealed on Monday that she has been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the white blood cells, but she declares that she intends to keep on working. Bakoyannis, the first female Minister of Foreign Affairs...

Opposition Leader Mitsotakis Vows to Exclude Relatives from Next Administration

The leader of New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said that he will exclude all his relatives from posts in the government he hopes to form after the next elections. In an interview with Kathimerini on Sunday, Mitsotakis stressed the need to...

Pavlos Bakoyannis, 'Voice of Reconciliation', Remembered 28 Years After Assassination

The family of  slain politician Pavlos Bakoyannis, marked the 28th anniversary of his assassination, with appeals to national reconciliation. His widow; prominent New Democracy politician, Dora Bakoyannis, wrote on Facebook: "28 years have passed. It was also a Tuesday. Yet your...

ND Accusation that Gov’t Growth Plan will Burden Public Finances is Unfounded According to Ministry Sources

The accusation that some of the measures on employment proposed in the government’s Growth Plan will burden Greeks further is unfounded, sources from the Economy ministry told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Sunday. The comment was a reply to New...

27 Years Since the Murder of Pavlos Bakoyannis by November 17

It was shortly before 8 a.m. on the morning of September 26, 1989 when two 45 shotguns aimed at and open-fired against New Democracy deputy Pavlos Bakoyannis. News of his assassination sent shockwaves through Greek society as the liberal politician was a...

New Democracy Leader Faces Second Round of Party Wrangling

New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras will once again see his leadership challenged when he will meet with the party's political committee on Sunday. After a long meeting of the New Democracy parliamentary group where Samaras tried to affirm his position as the...

New Democracy Leader Calls for Party Unity

Unity should prevail. This was the message former Greek Prime Minister and main opposition New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras highlighted while addressing the party's MPs behind closed doors earlier today. As he further stressed, he is in not "glued"...

New Democracy Leadership Race Fires up Ahead of Party Convention

Greek main opposition New Democracy leader and former Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is preparing his armory for the upcoming critical meeting of the party's Parliamentary Group on Thursday, where he is expected to go under friendly fire and his leadership...

New Democracy MP Dora Bakoyannis Doesn't Rule Out Challenging Party's Leadership

New Democracy MP and former Foreign Affairs Minister of the Karamanlis administration between 2006 and 2009, Dora Bakoyannis, did not rule out the possibility of challenging the party’s leadership in the near future after what was seen as a major...