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Mitsotakis steps up pressure on coalition over wildfire deaths
PoliticsGreek Politicswith Tsipras, who flew back from a trip to Bosnia to hold an emergency meeting with fire chiefs... conference on Tuesday, during which he essentially called for the resignations of Interior Minister Panos Skourletis, Alternate Citizens’ Protection Minister Nikos Toskas, Attica Governor Rena Dourou (all
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Reshuffle expected to follow minister's departure in wake of Mati disaster
PoliticsGreek Politics, that a meeting of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defence (KYSEA) led to an announcement...Alternate Citizens’ Protection Minister Nikos Toskas was the first political casualty of the recent.... For now, Toskas’s duties have passed to Interior Minister Panos Skourletis. This is just a stopgap
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Newsletter 213 -07/01/2019
Theodorikakos, may take over the Interior Ministry, Nikos Dendias might become the next foreign minister... on July 8, followed by his cabinet a day later, when the new premier will also hold his first meeting
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Turkey closes borders, Greece keeps up pressure
PoliticsForeign Policyas a member state Greece has every tool at its disposal, even to block decisions that are not meeting... issued by the Interior Ministry, the private Dogan news agency reported. The Greek government... Nikos Dendias continues to hold telephone talks with a number of his EU and non-EU counterparts
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Tsipras plans SYRIZA reboot, as govt pandemic response faces multiple challenges
PoliticsGreek Politicsa frontline role. It is widely expected that the key personnel changes will be proposed at a meeting... sources, are the appointment of former Interior Minister Panos Skourletis, who is currently serving... is Nikos Pappas, who is expected to swap the economy portfolio for transport. Pappas’s personal
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Vaccination politics intensify as Greece races to plug immunity gap
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe ambivalent role of the church towards vaccination. After meeting with senior health officials, the Holy..., the topic is becoming increasingly politicised. In a recent interview, Alternate Interior Minister... SYRIZA on Wednesday, when Parliament voted to put former Minister of State Nikos Pappas on trial
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Newsletter 343 - 24/06/2022
the summer. Mitsotakis announced at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday a second round of the fuel subsidy, known... and to appoint a caretaker Interior Minister to oversee the election process. The opposition party... Nikos Androulakis is quite likely to be open to a coalition deal. So far, Mitsotakis appears to have
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Polls indicated support for two main parties growing as start of elections marathon looms
PoliticsGreek Politicswill be able to call the party leaders either individually or together at a meeting to see if she can broker.... Opposition leader Alexis Tsipras remains on 22 pct and PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis has dropped.... This will be followed by Interior Minister Makis Voridis stepping down on March 12 so an interim minister, who
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Candidates start lining up for imminent SYRIZA leadership ballot
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, at a meeting of the party’s political secretariat on Monday it was decided to stick... be in the hat include former minister and close aide to Tsipras, Nikos Pappas, as well as the outspoken... years in the past 35 years. Interior Minister Niki Kerameus put the government’s bill to public
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Newsletter 389 - 14/07/2023
, at a meeting of the party’s political secretariat on Monday it was decided to stick with the existing plan.... It is expected that Alexis Tsipras’s former right-hand man Nikos Pappas and outspoken ex-MP Pavlos Polakis... had a presence in the country for at least two consecutive years in the past 35 years. Interior
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