Nikos Dendias

Greece's new Cabinet was sworn in Tuesday, two days after conservative party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis won early elections on pledges to make the country more business-friendly, cut taxes and negotiate an easing of draconian budget conditions agreed as part of the country's rescue program.

The new government will push for cross-party consensus in foreign policy, incoming minister Nikos Dendias said Tuesday.
Speaking during a handover ceremony at the ministry, Dendias said that "foreign policy should not be the subject of partisan confrontation."

New Democracy vice president Adonis Georgiadis has supporters and rivals of equal fervor, even within the ranks of his own party. Many question his attitude, which they find unnecessarily hard-line, especially compared to the more "comme il faut" - as he recently termed it - stance of moderate New Democracy cadres like Nikos Dendias and Costis Hatzidakis.

SYRIZA MP Makis Balaouras, who was chairing the House when far-right deputy Ilias Kasidiaris verbally and then physically attacked New Democracy's Nikos Dendias, had to call security several times. All Golden Dawn deputies were ejected from the House after they had behaved in a nasty manner that reflected their uncensored hatred of democracy.

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.

New Democracy lawmaker and former minister Nikos Dendias on Monday described to the press an attack he came under earlier in the day in Parliament by Golden Dawn spokesman Ilias Kasidiaris.

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

Despite its effort to appear open to dialogue over the way forward after its TV license law was deemed unconstitutional, the government on Monday showed no signs of seeking consensus after it submitted an amendment to Parliament that essentially suspends the right of Minister of State Nikos Pappas to grant nationwide broadcasting rights, rather than meeting the demand of opposition parties to a

The new president of main opposition party New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, will present on Thursday noon to party’s parliamentary group his plan for the reorganization of the party.