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Funeral service held for police officer killed by flare
The funeral service for 31-year-old riot police officer Giorgos Lyggeridis, who lost his life after being injured by a naval flare fired by an Olympiakos hooligan outside a volleyball arena on December 7, took place in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, on Friday.
PASOK to launch campaign against ‘golden visas’
PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis pledged on Friday to launch a campaign against the residence-permit-for-property-buys scheme of the government, widely known as the golden visa, claiming that this renders the Greek economy less Greek.
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Icebreaker government
Stefanos Kasselakis may assert confidently that SYRIZA will finish first in the upcoming European Parliament elections; however, polling data suggest that the conservative New Democracy party continues to dominate the country's political scene as shaped after the parliamentary elections.
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Androulakis: Our goal is to beat ND, not overtake SYRIZA
On Friday PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis reacted to Thursday's public survey that showed the once-dominant socialists have surpassed the main SYRIZA opposition, saying that the main aim is to take on ruling New Democracy.
PASOK requests creation of parliamentary committee for Tempi fatal train collision
PASOK requested the creation of a parliamentary committee that would carry out a preliminary investigation into the fatal Tempi train collision that occurred in central Greece earlier this year.
The 20-page document, signed by party leader Nikos Androulakis and PASOK's entire parliamentary group, was sent to Parliament President Constantine Tassoulas.
Simitis honored at Athens event
The era of modernization, almost 20 years after the end of the eight-year term of former socialist prime minister Costas Simitis, was revived on Monday evening in the Antigone Hall of the Hellenic Cosmos Cultural Center, at an event held in his honor.
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Kasselakis and Androulakis hold their first one-on-one meeting
SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis met with PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis on Monday. The first one-on-one meeting of the two opposition party leaders was held at Kasselakis' initiative, at Androulakis' office in Parliament.
Kasselakis concerned with the state of Greek democracy after ADAE meeting
Leader of the main opposition party SYRIZA Stefanos Kasselakis met with the president of the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) Christos Rammos on Monday.
"I have serious concerns on the quality of our democracy," commented Kasselakis adding that he shall expand on his concerns later on Monday.
Court to discuss challenge of wiretapping regulation
Greece's Council of State will discuss on Friday a petition by PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis requesting that a government regulation forbidding the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE, from informing those who have been previously monitored by the National Intelligence Service (EYP) be declared unconstitutional.
Top court to discuss Androulakis’ challenge of wiretapping regulation on Friday
Greece's Council of State will discuss on Friday a petition by PASOK-Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Nikos Androulakis requesting that a government regulation forbidding the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE, from informing those who have been previously monitored by the National Intelligence Service to be declared unconstitutional.