Konstantinos Karamanlis

In an interview with Alexis Tsipras back in 2012, I had asked him who he'd call first if he were prime minister and had learned of a serious incident in the Aegean. It was obvious that he hadn't given much thought to the scenario but he said, "Mr Erdogan, of course," in reference to the then Turkish prime minister and now president.

The French Institute in Athens will be hosting a lecture by former European Parliament president Nicole Fontaine, who held the post from 1999 to 2002, co-organized by the Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy.

Former-Greek President Kostis Stefanopoulos died on Sunday night at the age of 90. He passed away at the Errikos Dunant Hospital at 11.18pm following multiple organ failure, after being admitted for treatment on November 17 with serious respiratory problems.

“Greece is not alone, since Europe is on its side” said on Saturday EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos at an event on refugee organized by Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy and the Adenauer Foundation.

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.

Just two days prior to the New Democracy (ND) leadership elections, conservative main opposition leadership candidate Vangelis Meimarakis wrote an open letter to members and friends of the party.

He writes:

Greek men and women,

New Democracy men and women,

An unusual leaked CIA document that has been around since 2006 has been doing the rounds on the Internet in recent hours, trending on Twitter as #Karamanlis_gate.

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.

17 years after the death of former President of Republic and conservative New Democracy leader Constantinos Karamanlis, a memorial service was held at “Constantinos Karamanlis Institute”, at the Athens suburb of Filothei on Tuesday.

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.