Stelios Kimbouropoulos
European Commission slams Turkey as Ankara announces drilling in Greek EEZ
Turkey has announce plans to begin gas and oil exploration in a maritime area reaching from the Greek island of Kastelorizo to Libya, with which Ankara has in November, 2019, signed an accord that delimits their putative Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs, though they are not contiguous) by expropriating a huge chunk of Greece's EEZ, particularly around Crete.
Tsipras tables confidence motion as Mitsotakis blasts him over Polakis
For three days, 8-10 May, Greek politics will be focused on a vote of confidence that will be held on 10 May
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has invoked his parliamentary right to turn New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis' no-confidence motion against his alternate health minister Pavlos Polakis into a vote of confidence in the government.
Nurse fired for sharing FB post critical of Alternate Health Minister
A nurse has reportedly been fired by the private health clinic Ippokratis in Piraeus because she shared a Facebook post that lambasted Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis.
Greek news websites reported that Polakis' wife is employed by the same clinic.
Editorial: Mr. Tsipras’ beloved minister
Mr. Tsipras' beloved minister, Alternate Health Minister Pavlos Polakis, whom the PM has taken under his wing to provide cover for his unacceptable thuggery, has again exhibited his degeneracy.
The political immunity that he enjoys has made him so uncontrollable, prejudiced, and provocative that he has begun to scare even some of his own SYRIZA comrades.
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