In the mid-1970s when Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed changing the Greek alphabet to Latin and introducing a more strictly phonetic spelling system, the minister of culture and a Parliament member threatened to resign.
The unusual idea of the conservative...
Former president of France Valery Giscard d'Estaing passed away on Wednesday at the age of 94, with Greece bidding farewell to a great philhellene and supporter.
Giscard d'Estaing, who was the president of France from 1974 to 1981, had a...
Amalia Megapanou, the former wife of the late Greek statesman Konstantinos Karamanlis, has died at 91 years of age.
Born in Athens in 1929, she was the daughter of Anastasios Kanellopoulos and the niece of politician Panagiotis Kanellopoulos.
She married Karamanlis...
When King Paul entrusted Konstantinos Karamanlis to form a government on October 5, 1955 after the death of Prime Minister Alexandros Papagos, one of Greece's greatest modern national leaders made his first appearance on the national stage. He was...
The thorny issue of the name of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has generated new tensions in Greek Parliament as the government appears ambivalent over the use of the word "Macedonia" in the name.
Junior coalition partners Independent Greeks,...
On October 4, 1974 Konstantinos Karamanlis founded New Democracy (ND). The founding declaration was signed by himself alone.
The party that triumphed with 54.37% and 220 seats in the elections that followed a month later on November 17, was his...
The arrival of Barack Obama in Greece on Tuesday marks the fourth visit of a U.S. President in the country, 17 years away since the last one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first American President who visited Greece. Eisenhower came...
Former king of Greece, Constantine, said he is not interested in entering Greek politics because he doesn't know anything about politics. He refuses to apologize for the coup in Greece because he was not aware that a move for...
Greek Prime Minister and New Democracy President Antonis Samaras, during his yesterday's campaign meeting in Peristeri, Athens, said that, on January 25, Greeks are not called to decide which party they want to rule the country but which Greece...
