Stavros Dimas

Greeks don’t want snap elections and will punish those who try to force them, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said at an event organized by the National Conferederation of Greek Commerce (ESEE), adding that MPs will have to behave responsibly. The Premier attacked the main...

In an unprecedented move, the European Commission on Wednesday decided to formally back a political candidate running for President in Greece, and applauded the government for calling for snap presidential election. Yesterday, the Greek government and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras moved the...

Chief opposition SYRIZA members believe that Stavros Dimas, nominee for president of the Hellenic republic, will not be on the third and crucial ballot and that the coalition have another candidate standing by. A climate of optimism prevails in SYRIZA...

The nominee for President of the Hellenic Republic was the talk of the day, or wait a minute, it was the 12.78% plunge of the Athens Stock Exchange, or the guessing of the date of the Greek general elections,...

Varied were the responses of the Greek opposition parties, following the announcement of the Presidential ballot dates as well as the Stavros Dimas candidacy proposed by the coalition government partners, Prime Minister and New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras, and government...

Former EU Commissioner and former minister Stavros Dimas will be candidate for President of Hellenic Republic in all three votes, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras announced on Tuesday. Stavros Dimas was born in 1941 in Corinth, Greece. He studied law...

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras officially announced that Stavros Dimas is the preferred nominee for the chair of President of the Hellenic Republic. "The presidential election has become lately an instrument of blackmail for premature general elections," Samaras began. "Our...

After the coalition's decision to speed up the process for election of president of the Hellenic republic, several names of possible candidates have been leaked to the Press. However, the government has not made any official announcement regarding the...

The meeting of the 5+5 Dialogue for the Mediterranean, scheduled to take place in Rome on Monday, "will be a prime opportunity for political leaders from Athens to discuss recent developments in the region and especially in the eastern...

Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Stavros Dimas met on Tuesday with his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu on the sidelines of OSCE Ministerial Council in Vilnius, Lithuania. This was first meeting between the two foreign ministers since Dimas assumed office on November...