Nikos Voutsis

The controversy surrounding the arms agreement with Saudi Arabia took on a new twist on Thursday after Defense Minister Panos Kammenos tweeted that he plans to allow lawmakers access to classified documents pertaining to the deal and to declassify other related documents.

It was unclear, however, if a defense minister has the right to declassify documents.

Following a barrage of negative comments about the Greek PM’s refusal to weigh in on the revelations and the negative publicity surrounding the involvement of Defence Minister Panos Kammenos in the controversial deal of the sale of a large cache of munitions to Saudi Arabia via a shady middleman, Alexis Tsipras in a surprise move requested that the debate over the matter in parliament be postpo

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wrote to parliamentary speaker Nikos Voutsis on Wednesday to request that a House discussion scheduled for the following day on a controversial defense deal with Saudi Arabia be postponed.

Greek Deputy Finance Minister George Chouliarakis submitted the 2018 budget in parliament at 6pm, Tuesday. The President of the parliament, Nikos Voutsis said he hoped the next budget would be better.

The Municipality of Piraeus has launched a donation drive to collect food and clothing for hundreds of people in western Attica who saw their homes and possessions destroyed by deadly flash floods on Wednesday.

Greek lawmakers on Friday started a special session of Parliament by observing one minute of silence for the victims of Wednesday's flash floods in western Attica, which claimed 16 lives.

Parliament Speaker Nikos Voutsis has called a press conference for 1 p.m. on Wednesday to make an official announcement regarding the discovery of what are believed to be valuable archives on the premises.

The discovery concerns 1,000 original documents contained in 140 boxes.

A decision by a judicial council on Thursday to release convicted November 17 hitman Dimitris Koufodinas on a two-day furlough triggered angry reactions from politicians and foreign diplomats. 

Koufodinas walked out of Attica's high-security Korydallos Prison on Thursday afternoon for the first time since he was handed 11 life sentences in 2003. 

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and House speaker Nikos Voutsis on Tuesday responded to claims made the previous day by the head of Parliament's State Budget Office (PBO) warning that Greece faces economic collapse unless international creditors grant it significant debt relief.

Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias (l) welcomes Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios (r) at the 2nd International Conference on Religious and Cultural Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in the Middle East, in Athens, Monday. Organized by Greece's Foreign Ministry, the two-day forum, first held in 2015, aims to promote ties between the region's different religious and cultural groups.