Stavros Kontonis

A total of 15 million euros have been earmarked to rebuild infrastructure and compensate private individuals and businesses on the Ionian island of Zakynthos, which suffered damages from the 6.4 magnitude quake in late October.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reshuffled his cabinet on Monday, keeping key ministers in place while bringing in some new faces. 

As expected, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, Tsipras's coalition partner, kept their posts.

Greek Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis has decided not to proceed with the court order to extradite Turkish terror suspect Turgut Kaya to Turkey, according to national news agency AMNA.

Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis issued a statement on Friday claiming that the transfer of November 17 hitman to an agricultural prison from Attica's high-security Korydallos penitentiary would not result in a reduction of the convict's sentence.

Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis has announced the launch of Greece's first Justice Police force, a body that was legislated 26 years ago but has only just come into being.

The government is reportedly banking on the theory that the passage of time will blunt fierce opposition to the name deal signed on Sunday with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis on Friday ordered a judicial investigation into a rant by a far-right lawmaker who called on the army to arrest Greece's president and prime minister over the name deal with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).

The Greek justice minister has a conflicting stance when it comes to Rouvikonas. On the one hand he is trying to play nice with the anarchist group and its admirers, and on the other he is trying to placate the public, which is surprised and shocked by its antics.

The surprise resignation of Nikos Sakellariou as chair of the Council of State, Greece's highest administrative court, last week has rekindled the debate over political interference in the judicial system.

A prosecutor on Thursday shelved legal suits lodged against government officials and prosecutors by former prime minister Antonis Samaras, ex-finance minister Evangelos Venizelos and former health minister Dimitris Avramopoulos, now European migration commissioner, over bribery claims involving Swiss drugs firm Novartis.