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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that his government must send the message that the country is changing for the better in his second address to Parliament before receiving a vote of confidence. Mitsotakis also welcomed the low-key rhetoric of the opposition as a sign of a new, more moderate political culture. “The country is acquiring […]

The government’s programme was approved by all 158 New Democracy MPs in the Parliament that was elected on 7 July.

'I was impressed by the shift from invective and shrieks towards an institutional placidity on the part of New Democracy,' Tsipras declared.

The three-day debate which began on 20 July will end tonight with the final speeches of all parliamentary party leaders and the confidence vote.

The head of the geodynamic institute said that the 5.1 Richter temblor was the main earthquake and that the succession of smaller quakes was normal.

Incoming Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was well prepared. He had picked his ministers and associates from a pool comprised of both politicians and technocrats.

Aside from the Fatih and Yavuz, the Barbaros seismic research vessel has also been illegally plying the waters of the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of the Republic of Cyprus and Ankara is poised two send a second seismic research vessel, the MTA Oruc Reis.

Golden Dawn members may call each other “fellow fighters” but in fact their “ideological makeup” is the opposite of the fighting spirit. It is the makeup of a snitch, of an informer, and of a thug.

The time has come for the entire political system to realise that it cannot keep undermining the foundations upon which democracy rests.

According to the seismological centre of the University of Thessaloniki the depth of the temblor was 2 kilometres which explains why it strongly shook Athens.

Mitsotakis’ pledge to bolster the DIAS motorcycle patrol and to reconstitute the Delta group in Greek Police (a rapid reaction motorcycle force which was abolished by the SYRIZA government) will be implemented with the hiring of 1,500 new officers.

As the face of the European C omission during the more recent part of the Greek crisis, Schinas often was called upon to explain relations between the EU and Athens.

the government has not clarified whether the Economic Crimes Prosecutor will continue to play the guiding and coordinating role in the General Secretariat for the Investigation of Economic Crime.

Everyone is criticising the new criminal code and that does an injustice to the efforts to modernise the criminal justice system.

'To support growth and debt sustainability, the commitment to stick to the agreed reform path beyond the end of the programme is essential.' the ESM declared.

Tasoulas was a protégé of the late Evangelos Averoff (whose private secretary he was from 1981-1989), a broadly respected patrician in the ranks of Greek conservatism.

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis as main opposition leader had demanded that the police chief be sacked at the time.

Nikaia had Golden Dawn’s most organised and violent assault battalions which have been implicated in murder, blackmail, and protection rackets.

The first bond issue after the elections indicates that investors, thanks in part to the more general climate, trust our country.

Washington’s concern is that deploying the S-400 with the F-35 would allow Russia to gain too much inside information of the stealth system.