Nikos Pappas

The Greek and Cypriot telecommunications satellite Hellas Sat 3 was launched into orbit late Wednesday night from French Guiana. Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas said that, with the launch, Greece is "turning a page" with regard to its policy to make the most of space and space applications.

Panathinaikos had Yiannis Bouroussis and Nikos Pappas on fire and beat Olympiakos 84-80 in Game 2 of the Basket League finals on Thursday to level the best-of-five series at 1-1.

Greece's Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas on Wednesday asked the National Council for Radio and Television to determine when it would resume the process of licensing TV channels in the wake of a government tender for licenses that was struck down by Greek courts.

The spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund on April 20-23 in Washington will, the government believes, be pivotal to the formulation of the key Greek demand for medium-term debt relief measures.

Main opposition party New Democracy has submitted a question in Parliament to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Minister of State Nikos Pappas concerning a 2013 trip made by the latter to Venezuela with a Cypriot lawyer specializing in offshore companies. ND is also reportedly examining the possibility of requesting that Pappas appear before Parliament's transparency committee.

Workers at Greek state broadcaster ERT will walk off the job on Wednesday from noon until 3 p.m. and Thursday from 3 until 6 p.m to protest "chronic problems" that lead to an "unfair" work environment characterized by inequalities between staff.

Media Minister Nikos Pappas ruled out further austerity for Greece, saying that an agreement with eurozone ministers the previous day was for "zero sum fiscal interventions."

Several months after the Council of State deemed that the tender launched by the government for four nationwide TV broadcasting permits was unconstitutional, the coalition has officially canceled the process.

Minster of Digital Policy, Media and Telecommunications Nikos Pappas admitted on Tuesday that some of the sarcastic comments posted on social media in response to his announcement on Monday that he will table a bill inaugurating Greece's first space agency, were "inspired," but called on people to take the issue more seriously.

Telecoms and Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas will be presenting lawmakers with a bill inaugurating Greece's first space agency, the ministry said in an announcement on Monday.

The agency will be a public limited company called National Center for Space Applications (EKDE in Greek), aimed at "making up for the country's huge deficit in this area," the ministry said.