Ex-ministers’ row a pain for the government

Former defense minister Panos Kammenos and former foreign minister Nikos Kotzias clashed once again on Friday after the former claimed he had evidence that a contract for issuing visas was fixed under Kotzias' watch. 

Kammenos read out in Parliament what he said were extracts of emails exchanged between Foreign Ministry officials and representatives of a private firm which, he claimed, was improperly awarded a contract for issuing visas. 

According to Kammenos, the president of the company which eventually won the tender had been involved in setting the terms of the competition.

The former defense minister, who quit the government in January following differences with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras over the contentious Prespes agreement between Athens and Skopje, had always had a tense relationship with Kotzias, who left the government last year following a...