New Democracy MEP

The candidate countries of the Western Balkans must demonstrate in practice that they genuinely aspire to join the EU, emphasized New Democracy MEP Dimitris Tsiodras during today’s plenary session of the European Parliament. “We have been and continue to be strong supporters of the European perspective of the Western Balkans, a process initiated in Thessaloniki in 2003,” noted Mr. Tsiodras.

“The problem of Edi Rama with me started when he saw that he was losing the Municipality of Himara,” says the New Democracy MEP, Fredi Beleris, to protothema.gr.

“Europe must finally stop turning a blind eye to Turkey’s occupation of Cyprus,” emphasized New Democracy MEP Dimitris Tsiordas during his speech yesterday in the plenary session of the European Parliament.

It was not only former New Democracy MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou who, ahead of the European elections last June, sent mass emails to Greek expatriates after a data leak from the Ministry of Interior’s emigrants’ registry.

A meeting with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama that was scheduled to be held today in Tirana as part of a visit by a European Parliament delegation to monitor Albania’s EU accession process was cancelled.

Greece's Personal Data Protection Authority (PDPA) on Tuesday imposed a 40,000-euro fine on the ruling New Democracy (ND) party for not taking adequate measures to protect the personal data of hundreds of Greeks living abroad following an investigation into the "email-gate" scandal.

Former New Democracy MEP Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou has appealed a €40,000 fine imposed by the Data Protection Authority over the "email-gate" controversy.

The case involves allegations of unauthorized access to expatriate Greek voters' data before the 2024 European elections.

The Prosecutor of the Supreme Court, Georgia Adilini, sent a request on Friday to the Athens prosecutor's office asking to investigate allegations of fraud during the recent European elections made by the leader of the nationalist Greek Solution (Elliniki Lysi) party, Kyriakos Velopoulos, and a former New Democracy MEP, Georgios Kyrtsos.

Opposition parties are demanding the resignation of Interior Minister Niki Kerameus following the outcome of Greece's Personal Data Protection Authority (PDPA) investigation into unsolicited emails sent to the Greek diaspora ahead of the European elections.