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Papandreou Not Welcome In Edinburgh

The group Real Democracy Now-Edinburg has launched the collection of signatures through the Internet, demanding the removal of former Greek prime minister George Papandreou from the speakers list at the TEDGlobal conference. Papandreou, who resigned over Greece's fall into near-bankruptcy...

My Greek Drama Blasts Greek Politicians

In her biography My Greek Drama,  the woman who led the Organising Committee for the Olympic Games 2004 in Athens, Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki took shots at politicians whose paths crossed hers during that contentious time. She said the book is "a...

PASOK Audit Shows Dire Financial Problems

The once high-and-might PASOK Socialists will hear the result of an audit on May 9 of its deep financial difficulties that has forced a return to its previous headquarters because it can't pay the rent on more luxurious surroundings...

Papandreou's Mother Sues Over Lagarde List

The mother of former Greek prime minister George Papandreou, who said she had wrongly been named as having held a secret $550 million Swiss bank account on a list of 2,062 Greeks with deposits in the Geneva branch of...

Venizelos Squeezed To Oust Papandreou

PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos has reportedly been urged by party members to eject former Prime Minister George Papandreou, the man he replaced, for alleged financial mismanagement over 114 million euros ($149.2 million) in funds reportedly missing from party...

PASOK Finds 114.5M Euros Missing

Already not paying back hundreds of millions of euros in bank loans despite getting big grants from state coffers, the PASOK Socialist party is scrambling to find out what happened to 114.5 million euros ($149.2 million) that officials said...

Tsochatzopoulos Back to Court

The first morning hours of 11 April 2012, the Public prosecutor Popi Papandreou rang the bell of the neoclassical house at Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, announcing the former Minister of Defense his arrest warrant for political money laundering. Akis Tsochatzopoulos...

For Some, Greece's Junta Lives On

On the morning of April 21, 1967, Greeks suddenly found tanks in the streets of Athens as a coup of military leaders staged a junta that became known as The Regime of The Colonels and brought seven years of...

Papandreou Refuses To Testify On Lagarde List

Former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has for the second time sent a Parliamentary committee investigating a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts a note reiterating that he knew nothing about and that he won’t return from...

SDOE Pushed On Lagarde List Report

Tired of foot-dragging by Greece's Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) in delivering a report on a list of Greeks with secret Swiss bank accounts, members of a Parliament committee investigating it said they want it produced. The panel is trying to...