Pappas

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.

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.

The Council of State's plenary session has published the decision of the court which found that the law on which the government auction for the television licenses was based contravenes Greece's Constitution.

According to the decision, the law, brought by former State Minister Nikos Pappas, was against Article 15 of the Constitution.

"The German finance minister never wanted the Greek program to succeed," Telecoms & Media Minister Nikos Pappas said on Saturday referring to Wolfgang Schaeuble, one of Athens's staunchest critics.

Fifteen New Democracy MPs submitted a question in Parliament Tuesday asking whether the Venezuelan government provided funding to any parties, political organizations or Greek citizens.

The question was addressed to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas and State Minister Christoforos Vernadakis.

New Democracy on Monday reacted to comments made by Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas earlier in the day in which he accused the conservative opposition of serving the interests of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.

A statement by ND on Monday accused Pappas, a key aide of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, of engaging in "Goebbelsian propaganda."

Α senior official of Greece's left-led government on Monday criticized New Democracy opposition over its stance on a recent decision to give pensioners a one-off Christmas bonus.

The plan has triggered reactions from the country's foreign creditors, particularly Germany.