New Democracy MP

Former conservative prime minister Antonis Samaras on Saturday criticized a deal between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on the long-standing name dispute for conceding too much to the Balkan neighbor.

The state security agency is carrying out an investigation into Thursday's attack by anti-establishment activists on the downtown Athens office of conservative lawmaker Militiadis Varvitsiotis.

A decision by Defense Minister Panos Kammenos to receive the leader of a minor nationalist party and an independent MP planning her own right-leaning movement at the ministry on Friday fueled speculation about a possible bid to form a right-wing movement ahead of possible snap elections.

The government's candidate chair for Greece's umbrella social security fund EFKA, Efstathios Marinos, withdrew from the nomination on Thursday, following an outcry over an apparent conflict of interest.

Shops, supermarkets and cafes didn't open on Lesvos on Wednesday as local businesses joined a general strike called by professional bodies on the eastern Aegean island and neighboring Limnos and Aghios Efstratios to protest government plans to raise value-added tax (VAT) from 17 to 24 percent as of January 1.

The president of the Greek main opposition party New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, announced on Thursday with an official letter to the President of the Parliament, Nikos Boutsis, that MP Katerina Papakosta is no longer a member of the New Democracy’s Parliamentary group.

The reason for this was that Katerina Papakosta’s statements yesterday in favor of Panos Kammenos.

Guards in Parliament on Monday ejected neo-Nazi Golden Dawn MPs after party spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris verbally and physically abused Nikos Dendias, a conservative former minister.

Guards at Greece's Parliament had to eject a lawmaker with far-right Golden Dawn on Monday after he violently lashed out at a colleague.

There was a slightly surreal moment in Greek Parliament recently when New Democracy deputy Nikos Dendias quoted from Bob Dylan's song "All Along the Watchtower." He did so to respond to Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, who had earlier used a quotation attributed to Mark Twain ("The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated") to dismiss speculation about his lack of public appearances

New Democracy MP and former minister Evangelos Basiakos died of a heart attack on Friday at the age of 63.

ND leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he was "deeply shocked" at the death of a "friend and comrade who, as an MP and minister for ND governments, served the real needs of the people and our country."