Zoe Konstantopoulou
Athens Metro WWII-era video is not the one Berlin is angry about (compare videos)
Footage of the Nazi invasion of Greece during World War II is being screened across the Athens subway system. Specifically, a 50-second clip includes a radio report just hours ahead of the arrival of the Wehrmacht’s first units in the Greek capital, which was declared an “open city” to avoid damage. Clips of German soldiers are shown.
No bottled water in Greek Parliament
Speaker of the House Zoe Konstantopoulou on Thursday banned the use of plastic water bottles in Greek Parliament in another of her weird and wacky measures. Conservative New Democracy Minister Yiannis Tragakis asked for a bottle of water during a meeting of the Committee on Institutions and Transparency.
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Parliament Speaker speeds up work on Siemens, Lagarde list cases
Parliament Speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou recommended on Thursday that two ongoing corruption cases sent to Parliament be brought up the pending cases. The cases that are being made a priority are one relating to the Siemens scandal and one to the so-called ‘Lagarde list’.
PM A. Tsipras met with voters in jumbo interview (videos)
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appeared confident that an “interim agreement” would be agreed upon with Greece’s partners over the next few days in his first TV interview following the elections on private STAR TV.
$500-mln aircraft upgrade controversy spurs reaction
The approval of $US500 mln to Lockheed Martin for the upgrading of five naval aircraft exposed by Proto Thema on Sunday has raised a number of questions and reactions by Greek opposition parties as well as members of the Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) government.
Political fallout continues over $500-mln contract to modernize military planes
Proto Thema's exclusive weekend report of a government decision to directly award a 500-million-dollar tender for the modernization of five maritime surveillance planes continued to cause political reverberations this week.
PM in Parliament: Europe must not repeat mistakes which led to WWII
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipas on Tuesday termed a Parliamentary meeting on WWII reparations as historic: “In order to pay tribute to victims of WWII and the fighters of the Greek resistance”, he explained.
Speaker wants to launch committee to audit Greek debt
Parliament Speaker Zoe Konstantopoulou revealed plans on Tuesday to set up committees to audit Greece?s public debt and to examine the country?s claims to Second World War reparations from Germany.
Konstantopoulos informed journalists about her intentions after a meeting earlier in the day with her Cypriot counterpart Yiannakis Omirou.