PM comes under fire from predecessors

Two former conservative prime ministers, Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras, expressed their dismay with the government on a wide array of issues, not least foreign policy and same-sex marriage, during a book launch at the War Museum in Athens on Monday.

Samaras, who served as 14th prime minister from 2012 to 2015, unleashed a no-holds barred criticism of the government over same-sex marriage, the model of governance and foreign policy. Regarding same sex marriage, he said the objections of former leader were not heeded, bemoaning "the celebrations of ministers, cuddling with LGBTI people… while a third of our party's MPs did not vote for it."

On foreign policy, he said Greece has received "one humiliation after another," from North Macedonians, the Albanians "and, of course, our… friends the Turks," calling on the prime minister "to return to the historical...