Pappas

Nikos Pappas, who served as the minister of digital policy, telecommunications, and media from November 2016 to July 2019, on Saturday announced his candidacy for the leadership of the leftist SYRIZA party.

There is outrage in Ankara after the House of Representatives ratified Chris Pappas' amendment to block the sale of American F-16s to Turkey.

Under the Pappas amendment, not only the sale of new F-16 fighters, but also any modernization kit or equipment upgrade to Turkey is expressly prohibited.

The initiative belongs to Representatives Chris Pappas, Gus Bilirakis, and Carolyn Maloney

By Nikos Hasapopoulos

Christos Pappas of the now defunct far-right Golden Dawn party was no run of the mill cadre of former party leader Nikos Michaloliakos.

He was the self-styled "theoretician" of the group. Even "his own" people referred to him as [top Nazi Hermann] Goering and his parliamentary presence was marked by his outrageous audacity.

The Justice Ministry on Wednesday forwarded the case file containing the findings of an investigation into Nikos Pappas, the digital governance minister in the former SYRIZA-led government, to Parliament, which will debate the merit of accusations concerning his role in a contentious auction for TV licenses in 2016.

A case file containing the findings of an investigation into the minister of digital governance in the former left-led government, Nikos Pappas, is headed to Parliament, where lawmakers will debate the merit of accusations concerning his role in a contentious auction for television licenses.

One day after Greek-Israeli businessman Sabby Mionis accused former alternate justice minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos, the publisher of Dimokratia newspaper Ioannis Filippakis and two journalists of blackmail in 2016, the parliamentary committee probing the handling of the Novartis case by the former SYRIZA administration on Thursday summoned ex-digital policy minister Nikos Pappas to testify

Art historian Zetta Antonopoulou has put together an exhibition on the Greek artist Yannis Pappas (1913-2005) at his studio in Zografou, which was donated to the Benaki Museum for preservation by the artist's son. On his return from the war front and throughout the German occupation, Pappas lived in his studio.

The political trial of the extreme-right Golden Dawn continued Tuesday, with Christos Pappas, the party's number two, declaring that his "conscience is clear" and dismissing an old photograph of him and his young son performing the Nazi salute, saying they were "having a laugh."

Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas on Monday attributed leftist SYRIZA's defeat in European Parliament elections to absentions.