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Deputy Parliament Speaker Tasia Christodoulopoulou (SYRIZA) has announced that she consents to summoning Anti-Money Laundering Authority Chief Anna Zairi and the head of the Authority's investigation of the DEPA-ELFE (Hellenic Fertilizers and Chemicals) affair, who resigned in the middle of the probe, to appear before the Parliamentary Committee on Transparency.

With the opposition clamouring for a full investigation of the case of Manolis Petsitis, Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas, a schoolmate and friend of Petsitis, is now distancing himself from the erstwhile friend.

Ministers and government cadres have also distanced themselves from Petsitis declaring that the case should be exhaustively probed by the judiciary.

Greece's conservative opposition Monday requested that the head of the country's anti-money laundering authority, Anna Zairi, appear before the Parliament's Institutions and Transparency Committee to respond to questions about the alleged scandal involving government aide Manolis Petsitis, as well as the reported dismissal of a senior official investigating the case.

Although the electoral period is not yet in full swing, there are many signs of the outcome. A number of activities of the people and a series of scattered political events show that citizens have largely made up their mind.

Officials from North Macedonia and Greece signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in Skopje on Tuesday on the mutual reduction of roaming charges.
North Macedonia's Information Society and Administration Minister Damjan Manchevski and Greece's Minister for Digital Policy Nikos Pappas held a press conference after the signing ceremony.

An Athens prosecutor on Friday ordered a preliminary investigation into reports that a close associate of a government minister had tried to intervene so that a company owned by disgraced businessman Lavrentis Lavrentiadis could get out of paying more than 120 million euros in debts to the Public Gas Corporation (DEPA).

Media Minister Nikos Pappas on Tuesday labeled the bombing attack against the headquarters of Skai television and Kathimerini newspaper on Athens's southern coast the previous day as an "abhorrent and despicable act."

What did the bombers who targeted Kathimerini and Skai ultimately accomplish? Sure, they caused damage, which will be repaired, at a time when every euro counts. But beyond that? Did they think that they would terrorize the journalists into silence, make them stop talking and writing? As if we would. We will not weep or be intimidated.

In a statement on Friday, Stelios Pappas, the head of the Thessaloniki Urban Transport Organization (OASTH) described the burglary of his home on Thursday night as an attempt to hamper efforts to liquidate the company.

The burglary, during which only a laptop was stolen, was "a targeted intervention," Pappas said in a statement.

A new show at the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture in the central Athens neighborhood of Kolonaki brings together two young photographers in a joint exhibition titled "Ethos: Another Side of Greece." The work of both George Tatakis and Michael Pappas displays youthful enthusiasm, an experiential approach and genuine interest in the topic of the country's surviving customs and traditional events.<