wiretapping scandal

Greece came last among EU countries in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2023 World Press Freedom Index, for the second year in a row. Greece now ranks 107th, right behind Qatar and Thailand, and performing worse than countries such as...

Greek main opposition SYRIZA announced on Tuesday that it will boycott the Greek Parliament, a move slammed by the government which accused its leader Alexis Tsipras of "undermining parliamentary democracy." Tsipras accused the conservative New Democracy government of being “morally...

The Greek government survived a censure motion tabled by main opposition SYRIZA over the wiretapping scandal on Friday. 156 MPs voted against the motion and 143 in favor. A total of 299 MPs participated in the roll-call vote following a...

The year 2022 was a turbulent year for Greece following the Russian invasion of Ukraine which resulted in a spike in inflation and energy costs. In addition, Turkey's provocations in the Aegean, the wiretapping scandal, and Qatargate have marked...

Greek police on Tuesday raided the Athens offices of several companies that could be related to the wiretapping scandal that has rocked the government in recent months. Among the companies targeted was of Intellexa, an Israeli-owned company related to the...

The Greek wiretapping scandal took another turn for the worse for the government on Sunday as a paper published telephone conversations of a prominent minister who was allegedly spied upon by the intelligence service (EYP). Newspaper Documento, who almost single-handily...

A new media report on the wiretapping scandal in Greece on Sunday alleged that the former head of Greek Police (ELAS) and a senior judge were under surveillance by the intelligence service. The report in the weekly Documento newspaper, which...

Opposition parties in Greece demanded the resignation of PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and requested snap elections during a heated debate in parliament over the wiretapping scandal. Main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras said that Mitsotakis not only knew about the wiretapping of...

A Greek court in Thessaloniki has approved a FYROM request for the extradition of two former secret police employees linked to the wiretapping scandal that brought down the country's previous government. The two former police officers, Goran Grujevski and Nikola...

A European court has ordered Greece to pay damages to relatives of a Vodafone Telecoms executive who was found dead on the eve of the government’s discovery of a major illegal wiretapping operation targeting the country’s political and military...