Movement for Change

MP Giannis Ragousis speaks in a debate on a proposal by opposition party PASOK-KINAL to set up a parliamentary probe into the phone tapping scandal in Greece, August 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/Yannis Kolesidis

PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis on Monday received the leader of the Socialist Party of Germany Lars Klingbeil at his office in parliament.

A draft bill on "prevention and management of violence and bullying phenomena in schools" was approved by the Greek Parliament plenary on Wednesday.

Riot police officers in Thessaloniki, Greece. Photo: EPA-EFE/DIMITRIS TOSIDIS

According to the Greek media outlet Kathimerini, the seven persons, two lieutenant generals and five major generals, served in critical positions such as the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit and the Attica Security department, the Internal Affairs Service and the Police Intelligence Division.

Achieving an agreement for the permanent return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece by the British Museum "is difficult, but not impossible," said Culture Minister Lina Mendoni in Parliament on Monday, reiterating the government's stance that she says "remains national, unanimous, consistent and clear."

The former chief of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), Panagiotis Kontoleon and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' ex-chief of staff, Grigoris Dimitriadis, refused to answer questions of MPs on EYP's wiretapping of PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis at a hearing held yesterday by the competent parliamentary Committee on Institutions and Transparency, based on the argument that issues p

By Vasilis Labropoulos

In the last 15 years, there have been at least 20 cases of suspicious actions or mistakes within the National Intelligence Service (EYP) that have had an impact on Greek politics and raise questions about EYP's modus operandi and objectives.

Signals of a political climate in the making at the start of the new political period and of a pre-election year are evident in the first poll - undertaken by GPO for "TA NEA - Weekend Edition" - in the wake of the monitoring of Nikos Androulakis by National Intelligence Agency-EYP.

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.

By George Gilson