Yiannis Ragousis

The Ministry of the Interior is preparing a bill that will give second-generation legal immigrants and their children the right to apply for Greek citizenship, according to Kathimerini. The new bill will essentially replace the 2010 Yiannis Ragousis law on nationality and citizenship issues,...

An amendment brought to the Greek parliament that has been added to the justice ministry bill by the interior minister Yiannis Michelakis, is to change the provisions concerning the rights to vote or run in the Greek local elections. The...

Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has directed Deputy Interior Minister Haralambos Athanassiou to proceed with a string of amendments that would repeal citizenship rights for second-generation migrants, a law passed by a previous government to meet a Council of...

A former minister in then Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's Cabinet in 2010 said he and two other colleagues were opposed to the bailout the Premier sought from the International Monetary Fund, an assertion that Papandreou said was untrue. Andreas...

The Council of State, Greece's highest administrative court, has called into question legislation that granted citizenship and voting rights to second-generation immigrants living in the country, the daily Kathimerini reported. Known as the Ragousis law, after Interior Minister Yiannis Ragousis...

The Greek Development Ministry is tweaking an ambitious piece of legislation aimed at attracting investments and accelerating those that are pending due to bureaucratic hurdles.  It emerged on Thursday as a controversial law opening up the taxi drivers' sector...