National Intelligence Service

Term of GEETHA chief set for extension

The term of Chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff (GEETHA), General Konstantinos Floros, looks set to be extended for another year.

An announcement is expected after Monday's meeting of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) which will be chaired by conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.

Government mulls change in electoral law to lower threshold for bonus seats to top party

With the prospect of single-party rule or the formation of a viable coalition government weakened by the EYP surveillance scandal, rampant rumours that have circulated for months that the government may change the electoral law to to lower the threshold for  the top party up to a 50-seat-bonus have been rekindled.

PM seeks to push ‘restart button’ at TIF amid spying probe, with stress on handouts, political stability, investment

By Dimitris Chondros

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis wants to transcend the current heavy political climate caused by the surveiilance affair and shift the political agenda, ahead of what is likely to be a protracted pre-electoral period, in his major address at the Thessaloniki International Affair (TIF) next week.

Dimitriadis, ex-EYP chief refuse to tell MPs why PASOK leader was wiretapped, ‘PM did not know’

The former chief of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), Panagiotis Kontoleon and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' ex-chief of staff, Grigoris Dimitriadis, refused to answer questions of MPs on EYP's wiretapping of PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis at a hearing held yesterday by the competent parliamentary Committee on Institutions and Transparency, based on the argument that issues p

Wiretapping: Current and former intelligence chiefs invited to closed-door meeting in Parliament on Thursday

Nine individuals including former intelligence chiefs have been invited to closed-door hearings in Parliament on the operation of the National Intelligence Service (EYP) and eavesdropping on PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis and others that will take place on Thursday.

EYP’s internecine ‘wars of interests’: blunders, scandals, defunct ‘spy rings’ in sketchy past

By Vasilis Labropoulos

In the last 15 years, there have been at least 20 cases of suspicious actions or mistakes within the National Intelligence Service (EYP) that have had an impact on Greek politics and raise questions about EYP's modus operandi and objectives.

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