Evangelos Venizelos

Greece’s political leaders are attending Greek Orthodox Easter events at their home towns with friends and family members.

Defense Minister Panos Kammenos defended his decision to sign a 500-million-euro contract to upgrade five P-3B Orion aircraft. The story saw the light of day on Sunday's Proto Thema and has stirred controversy bearing in mind the fact that this is the largest arms investment in the last five years and comes at a time when Greece is struggling financially.

New Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos received a… harsh letter from PASOK president Evangelos Venizelos, asking the former about his presence during the beginning of proceedings of a Parliamentary audit committee on the national debt.

Socialist party PASOK on Wednesday suggested that former conservative Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis (photo) should be the first witness called to face a parliamentary committee expected to be set up to probe the circumstances in which Greece's two international bailouts were signed.

An Athens court hearing the appeal of ex-Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos against his prison term for money laundering has accepted the former PASOK veteran?s request for the members of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) from 1998 to 1999 to be called as witnesses.

Socialist PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos told private SKAI TV on Tuesday that the government's strategy and choices weren't the best. He lashed out against Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Parliamentary Speaker Zoi Konstantopoulou.

In his interview to Greek newspaper “Agora” the leader of PASOK accused the SYRIZA government of playing “a game of bilingualism”, while in the meantimem according to Evangelos Venizelos, the “Greek economy deteriorates”.

Greek officials walked out of a meeting of foreign ministers from NATO member states in December after protesting a document referring to the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) by its constitutional name, which is the subject of a dispute with Athens.

Socialist PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos on Friday announced he was stepping down from the party's leadership, with a party congress announced for mid May.

A prosecutor recommended on Wednesday that the Athens court hearing the appeal of ex-Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos against his prison term for money laundering should accept the former PASOK veteran?s request for the members of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) from 1998 to 1999 to be called as witnesses.