Stelios Kouloglou

Stelios Kouloglou, a former SYRIZA MEP, has claimed that main opposition leader Stefanos Kasselakis considered leaving politics and even discussed a potential career change with a media executive following the party's poor performance in the June European Parliament elections.

SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has refuted a report alleging that he requested the removal of posters featuring Alexis Tsipras, a former prime minister and his predecessor as the head of the party, from the walls of the main opposition headquarters in Koumoundourou Square.

MEP Stelios Kouloglou, who recently quit SYRIZA over developments within the main opposition, rejected calls on Monday from the new party leader, Stefanos Kasselakis, to give up his seat in the European Parliament.

Main opposition New Democracy leads SYRIZA by 6.5 percentage points, but the ruling party's polling numbers in the region of Macedonia have collapsed, largely due to the hugely unpopular Prespa Agreement with the state of North Macedonia.

SYRIZA incumbents have announced their first batch of candidates ahead of European Parliament elections in May.
Apart from current MEPs Dimitris Papadimoulis, Konstantina Kouneva and Stelios Kouloglou, the list features another 13 names, including academics

Two SYRIZA MEPs voted against a European Parliament motion to recognize Venezuela's self-declared interim president Juan Guaido as de facto head of state on Thursday, urging the bloc's 28 governments to also consider the opposition leader as "the only legitimate interim president" until there were "new free, transparent and credible presidential elections" in the troubled Latin American nation.

SYRIZA MEP Stelios Kouloglou has filed a complaint with European Parliament President Antonio Tajani claiming that several sketches by Greek cartoonists will not be allowed to go on display in an exhibition that is being organized by the Greek politician and French MEP Patrick Le Hyaric, celebrating 60 years of the European Union.

Judging by a recent statement by SYRIZA MEP Stelios Kouloglou, the governing party would have liked to have seen a Geert Wilders victory in the Netherlands, in the sense that this would have caused turbulence in Europe, prompting Greece's lenders to seek a political solution with Athens.

Just a few hours before the EU meeting on refugee issue, the mistaken made by Alternate Minister For Migration Policy Yannis Mouzalas who referred to FYROM as ‘Macedonia’ has led to unprecedented developments.

It is now widely accepted that there are serious concerns about the sustainability of Greek debt, said the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi answering to a question posed by MEP Stelios Kouloglou.