Marietta Giannakou

The head of the Greek delegation to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Marietta Giannakou, has been elected vice president of the consultative interparliamentary organization for the North Atlantic Alliance, making her the first Greek MP to be appointed to the position.

New Democracy deputy Dimitris Keridis is organizing a live online debate titled "The Economic Crisis of the Pandemic: More or less Europe?" to take place at 9 p.m. on Monday, with the participation of New Democracy MEP Marietta Giannakou, Athens University of Economics and Business professor Giorgos Pagoulatos, and London Business School professor Elias Papaioannou.

The Greek delegation walked out of NATO's Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels on Wednesday in protest at the stance of acting president Attila Mesterhazy.

An open letter published by five respected Greek academics and politicians calls for the abolition of a law preventing police from entering university grounds and an end to tolerance of campus violence.

A group of five well-known academics and politicians have written an open letter calling for the end of university asylum, which New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis - who all polls indicate will win the 7 July general election by a large margin - has said he will abolish anyway.

An open letter published by five respected Greek academics and politicians calls for the abolition of a law preventing police from entering university grounds and an end to tolerance of campus violence.

Greece's left-wing prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, is trying to convince his European peers that he is moving toward the political center. But his recent decisions and the overall demeanor of his government suggest otherwise.

Main opposition conservative New Democracy Party leader Evangelos Meimarakis said the problems that arose during the voting of the New Democracy party’s elections was purely “technical and should not have been politicized.” Making statements outside the conservative party headquarters at Syngrou Street on Monday morning, he said: “I entered this process showing respect to my fellow candidates a

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is due to announce on Tuesday at 4 p.m. to his parliamentary group the name of the man or woman he would like to succeed President Karolos Papoulias.

After the announcement of SYRIZA?s candidate, the first round of voting for the next president is due to take place on Wednesday evening at 7.30 p.m.