Panos Kammenos
This is not 2015
The SYRIZA government was an accident of history. A farce. It arose when Greece went bankrupt and people's anger turned against - rightfully so - the parties that had ruled the country until then: PASOK and New Democracy.
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Kammenos and SYRIZA exchange barbs
An acrimonious public conflict has broken out between erstwhile allies SYRIZA and the former leader of the nationalist ANEL party, Panos Kammenos, who were partners in government between 2015 and 2019.
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Putting the far right on center stage
In a political culture where polarization reigns for no specific ideological reason, very often a political party's policies and personnel choices are determined by its rivals actions and personalities. In recent years, this has brought the extreme right to the center stage of politics.
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Posing pressing electoral dilemmas, Mitsotakis lashes out at Tsipras, Androulakis
Demonstrating the conspiracy scheme against Stavros Papastavrou
Editorial: The ‘trolls’ of mudslinging
In spring, 2012, then TV reporter and producer of the show "Protagonistes" (protagonists), and later founder of the now defunct To Potami (the river) party, Stavros Theodorakis, in the context of contacts with other parties ahead of elections arranged an interview with Alexis Tsipras regarding Syriza's aims and prospects.
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Appeals court convicts Kammenos of slander over CDS case
Athens' Court of Appeal convicted Independent Greeks leader Panos Kammenos of slander, ordering him to pay 50,000 euros plus interest to Andrikos Papandreou, the brother of former Socialist Premier George Papandreou, whom he had accused of involvement with a firm that profited from the purchase of credit default swaps (CDS) insuring against a Greek bankruptcy.
Kammenos dismisses media reports over Noor One ship
Former defense minister Panos Kammenos has dismissed recent media reports claiming that he had as SYRIZA coalition partner received intelligence from foreign security services regarding the implication of shipping magnate Evangelos Marinakis in the Noor One heroin smuggling affair.
The real problem
I have been doing this job long enough not to be surprised by the ruthlessness so vividly displayed in the infamous recorded conversation about the deadly 2018 wildfire in Mati.
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SYRIZA demands that government answer Erdogan’s provocation
Main opposition SYRIZA slammed the government over its management of relations with Turkey and demanded that it respond to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's statement that he hopes that Greece does not approach Aegean islands the sovereignty of which Ankara disputes, just as the Greek military this year did not approach the Imia islets on the anniversary of the crisis that brought the tw