Panos Skourletis

The Council of State (CoS), Greece ’s highest administrative court, on Monday abrogated a ministerial decision by former productive reconstruction, environment and energy minister Panos Skourletis to revoke the operating license of the Hellas Gold mining company in Halkidiki...

Minister of Environment and Energy Panos Skourletis signed an amendment that opens the way for the establishment of cremation facilities in Greece. The new amendment puts an end to environmental concerns that were a hurdle to the licensing of cremation...

Accelerating procedures for implementation of the TAP and IGB natural gas pipeline projects was the topic of discussions during a meeting on Wednesday between Environment and Energy Minister Panos Skourletis with Amos Hochstein, US special envoy and coordinator for...

The Council of State temporarily suspended the decision of Greek former Productive Reconstruction Minister Panos Skourletis (August 19, 2015), which recalled the decision that approved the engineering design of the mining facilities in Skouries, as submitted by Hellas Gold,...

Greek Productive Reconstruction, Energy and Environment Minister Panos Skourletis addressed the future of Greece's state-owned utility company Public Power Corporation (DEI) and the future of energy in Greece, during an interview with realfm 97.8 radio station, on Monday. The Greek state currently...

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is to appoint Euclid Tsakalotos for the second time, as Greece's finance minister in his new cabinet, according to a SYRIZA official. The Oxford-trained economist, who replaced Yanis Varoufakis in July, played a crucial role in Greece's...

The Greek Council of the State will decide whether or not it will strike down former Greek Environment Minister Panos Skourletis's decision to halt the development of mines in Chalkidki, Northern Greece on October 2nd. Skourletis ordered the stoppage in August, even though the...

The controversy over mining projects in northern Greece continues as the Greek Council of State cancelled the Productive Reconstruction, Environment and Energy Ministry's decision to recall the permits for Hellas Gold's technical mining studies in northern Greece. The country's supreme court argued that the...

Miners in Chalkidiki, northern Greece, met with authorities from the municipality of Arnaia on Wednesday to discuss the Greek government's decision to suspend Hellas Gold's development of a gold mine in Skouries and Olympias. Prior to and during the meeting, some miners had taken over...

SYRIZA Central Committee Secretary General Tassos Koronakis submitted his resignation on Monday. Koronakis resigned during the meeting of the SYRIZA Political Secretariat. He stated that he will remain a party member and will continue to serve. According to sources, Koronakis will...