Panagiotis Kouroumblis

Corfu, one of Greece's favorite holiday destinations, is losing tourists because of mounts of trash filling the city after the main landfill saturated. Residents of Temploni have blocked the saturated landfill of the area. They complain that it has been...

Leftist SYRIZA Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with his party's Political Secretariat on Friday and noted the need for "deep democratic reforms." The group met in the presence of Speaker of the House Nikos Voutsis, and stated their support...

Greece's Interior Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis described the Idomeni refugee tent city as a "modern-day Dachau" and blamed Europe's closed borders policy for that. The minister criticized the living conditions of the makeshift refugee camp at Idomeni, on the Greece-Former Yugoslav...

Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis said he is ready to provide a second accommodation center for refugees under the condition that there is an end to the awful state of affairs around Victoria Square, a public park in a grubby...

Greek Minister of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction Panagiotis Kouroumblis expressed his confidence that the government will be able to pass the bill for overhauling Greece’s pension system during an interview to the radio station Athens 9.84. "Today, the government...

Cremation of the dead is now legal in Greece, despite strong opposition from the Orthodox Church. The law on cremation was officially published in Monday's Government Gazette. The Church of Greece prohibits cremation. However, the bill that was passed in...

The Greek government will soon introduce legislation to stop public-sector employees found guilty of serious transgressions or even criminal actions from returning to their jobs while their case is being processed, Interior Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis told the radio station...

Greek Health and Social Insurance Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis on Wednesday issued a stern warning to multinational drug companies that they should invest in Greece, during a speech at a conference titled “Shaping the Future of Healthcare in Greece.” The minister...

Greece's SYRIZA-led government is determined to support the public healthcare system in any way and exhaust not just all possible options of the surplus but of every cent, stated Greek Health Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis in an interview to Athens-Macedonian News Agency on Sunday. The...

Greece's government announced on Tuesday the abolition of a controversial health and hygiene regulation that allowed authorities to publish the details, including photographs, of workers that had tested HIV positive. This is the second time the regulation has been abolished since its...