Andreas Papandreou

Now that George Papandreou is returning to the central political scene, the winner of the 2009 elections with a percentage that would be envied by his political opponents (PASOK 43.92% and 160 seats, second party ND with 33.47% and 91 seats), inevitably our mind goes back to that time and the bleak years of the memoranda that followed.

By George Gilson

The centre-left Movement for Change Party (KINAL, formerly Pasok) today approved and certified six candidates for the party leadership race after examining the signatures submitted in support of each candidate.

By Dimitris Chondros

Former prime minister George Papandreou is poised to announce his candidacy for the leadership of the centre left Movement for Change party (KINAL).

Papandreou held talks with all the other candidates over the weekend and today, when he met with MEP Nikos Androulakis and Vasilis Kegeroglou, the secretary of KINAL's parliamentary group.

Long-time PASOK minister and deputy Akis Tsohatzopoulos died on Friday at the age of 82. He had been hospitalized over the recent period, with the cause of death being heart failure.

By Yannis Marinos

It is conceivable that the new labour law shepherded through Parliament by Labour Minister Kostis Hatzidakis might have been approved by almost all opposition parties had it not included provisions that affect unprecedented privileges enjoyed until now by trade unionists, thanks to a well-known law passed under Pasok rule.

The relevant decision was made by KYSEA today

Greece's Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) extended on Thursday the terms of Lieutenant General Georgios Blioumis, chief of the Hellenic Air Force, and Michalis Karamalakis, the head of Greek Police (ELAS). 

Blioumis was first appointed to the post on January 2019 and Karamalakis on July 2019.

The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Paul Sarbanes was one of the most prominent figures of the Greek diaspora. If you didn't know him in person, you might get the impression that he was an all-too-quiet, perhaps even indifferent man. Big mistake. Sarbanes had what one might call stealth power.

Over three decades of mystery and endless conspiracy theories may have ended today after Swedish prosecutors said who pulled the trigger, assassinating Sweden's Social Democrat two-time PM Olof Plame in 1986.

Almost four decades have passed since Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou famously asked, "Are we to be the waiters of Europe?" The phrase echoed the mood and the social norms of the time. Greece was awash with cheap money from Europe, the country lost any industrial base that it had, and people got used to becoming rich without producing anything of value.