Michalis Katrinis

Mitsotakis dares opposition to table no-confidence motion, says he was surveilled under Tsipras

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis threw down the gauntlet at main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras during a parliamentary debate today at the level of party leaders on the National Intelligence Service surveillance affair regarding the phone tapping of centre-left KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, daring Tsipras to table a no-confidence motion if he does not have the trust of his MPs.

Michalis Katrinis is new head of Greek Organization Against Drugs


A cross-party parliamentary panel on Wednesday approved the appointment of Michalis Katrinis, a former PASOK MP and a member of the Council of Europe’s social, health and family affairs committee, as the new head of the state-run Organization Against Drugs (OKANA), which runs Greece’s biggest rehabilitation program for drug users.