Nikos Pappas
Kretsos embarrasses government after new luxury yacht cruise is revealed
Straight on the heels of the political uproar over PM Alexis Tsipras' August, 2018, Ionian cruise on the yacht of the Panagopoulos shipping family, the daily Ta Nea revealed that his deputy digital policy minister Lefteris Kretsos took his own luxury cruise in the Saronic Gulf.
Journalists’ drinks tab trial set for October 22
Two journalists will stand trial on charges of forgery after they allegedly signed for drinks at a hotel bar in 2016 using the name of an aide of then-minister of state Nikos Pappas, who was leading a Greek delegation in New York to prepare a visit by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
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VAR to be introduced in Greek soccer
Greece signed a contract on Thursday on the "Digital Restructuring of Greek Soccer" that introduces the Video Assistance Referee (VAR) system to games.
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Tsipras tables confidence motion as Mitsotakis blasts him over Polakis
For three days, 8-10 May, Greek politics will be focused on a vote of confidence that will be held on 10 May
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has invoked his parliamentary right to turn New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis' no-confidence motion against his alternate health minister Pavlos Polakis into a vote of confidence in the government.
Shipping tycoon’s revelations kick up political storm
A political firestorm erupted on Thursday after shipping magnate Evangelos Marinakis claimed in an interview that Premier Alexis Tsipras and Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas asked him to finance businessman Yiannis Kalogritsas during the auctions for TV broadcasting licenses in 2016, as a favor.
Shipping magnate claims PM, minister asked him to support friendly businessman
Greek shipping magnate Vangelis Marinakis claimed in a radio interview on Thursday that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas had asked him to pay the first instalment of a TV license fee on behalf of another businessman who was reportedly on good terms with the government.
Marinakis: Minister Pappas asked me to pay 26mn euros for Kalogritsas to get TV license
In a bombshell interview shipowner and Olympiacios FC owner Evangelos Marinakis today said that Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas asked him to meet with government-friendly businessman Ioannis Kalogritsas before a September, 2016, state tender for broadcast television licenses, and that Kalogritsas went to Marinakis' office to ask for a 26mn euro loan so that he could acquire a license
Editorial: Older than the old regime
According to the government spokesman, who is the authentic interpreter of the views of the PM's office, all that has been revealed about the ties between Manolis Petsitis and Alexis Tsipras' right-hand-man, Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas, and about the DEPA (gas company)-Lavrentiadis scandal are merely a diversionary tactic which was concocted by the opposition to draw attention away fro
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The poison in the Costa-Gavras case
Whether or not we like Greek-French director Costa-Gavras, his movies or the topic of his new movie "Adults in the Room," based on the book by former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, the process through which filmmakers can obtain state funding in Greece (via cash rebate) is based on numbers and percentages rather than in-person meetings.
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Director hits back at critics of film funding
Paris-based Greek-French filmmaker Costa-Gavras has lashed out against a portion of Greece's media he said has insulted him in "the worst way."
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