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It took just two rounds of games in the Greek Super League for the first managerial head to roll, as Atromitos announced on Monday the dismissal of coach Traianos Dellas.

Before the threat of Greece facing expulsion from all international football  competitions by FIFA and UEFA, Greek Deputy Minister for Sports Stavros Kontonis decided to resume the Greek cup competition.

Former Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis and his wife Natasha Pazaiti showed up to vote for the conservative main opposition New Democracy party elections at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday morning. They voted at the electoral center housed at the neoclassical building at the corner of Vas. Olgas and 25 Martiou streets.

Former Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis voted at Agios Elefterios polling station, in Thessaloniki at 8 am, without, though, making any statements.

Friday marks the 36th anniversary of the signing of Greece’s membership in the EEC, the precursor of today’s European Union, by then Greek PM Constantine Karamanlis, the country’s pre-eminent statesman in the second half of the 20th century.

The investigation about an assassination plot code-named "Pythia" against former Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis, which was revealed in 2011, has brought to light new evidence with regard to another unsolved case, the assassination of journalist Sokratis Giolias.

New Democracy MEP Theodoros Zagorakis had his immunity lifted on Wednesday by the European Parliament so he could stand trial in Greece in connection to an accident that happened at PAOK?s Toumba Stadium in May 2010, when he was the club?s chairman.

The ex-soccer player is accused of failing to abide by safety regulations and being responsible for an employee?s injury.

The European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs unanimously decided to strip New Democracy MEP Theodoros Zagorakis of his parliamentary immunity, following a request forwarded by the Deputy Public Prosecutor at the Supreme Court of Greece on 19 December 2014 and announced in plenary on January 28, 2015.