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The moderate and soft-spoken former president of Greece’s Council of State evoked great sympathy from the public when he teared while defending himself and his decades-long unblemished public service.

In a document released by the Movement for Change today at its weekly press briefing, the centre-left party enumerates five facts that it claims establish that the focus on opposition politicians in  the Novartis investigation was a conspiracy.

The Greek PM went as far as to urge the other leaders to consider backing moves that would allow Britain to remain in the Union.

Day by day it becomes increasingly obvious that the Greek Novartis scandal is just what it is in other countries – a medical and not a political scandal. The company itself has admitted the medical scandal.

If there is a political scandal – or at least weighty political responsibility – it involves mainly the 2004-2009 period of the Karamanlis administration which SYRIZA did not wish to investigate

The discovery of huge gas deposits in the Eastern Mediterranean and Ankara’s hostile stance towards drilling in Cyprus’ EEZ by companies including ExxonMobil has pushed Washington to shift stance.

Ankara has often tested the limits of US resolve for quite some time, as when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in February threatened that if Washington impeded Turkish operations in Syria it would receive the 'Ottoman slap'.

We seek out or manufacture enemies instead of forging a fundamental consensus so as to escape the vicious circle into which the country has fallen.

Essentially, Tzanakopoulos indirectly acknowledged the ties between Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas and Cypriot lawyer Artemiou (see photo) but explained that they have nothing to do with the PM’s office or government business.

'The competent authorities of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) is a matter of continuous concern to the European Central Bank (ECB), which stands ready to react decisively against threats to independence,' SSM's Andreas Enri replied to MEP Eva Kaili

Anastasia Xepapadea stressed that she stopped lawyering entirely before assuming her position at the Anti-Corruption Secretariat.

The government is trying to keep the case in the news as a scandal even though it appears to be the biggest case of scandal-mongering of the last years.

This situation allows the government and media which have been assigned the role of publishing leaks to continue their scandal-mongering and political exploitation of a judicial case.

The probe is continuing in the cases of Samaras, Stournaras, Avramopoulos, Georgiadis, and Salmas, and sources say most if not all of those files will be closed by the end of April, due to lack of evidence.

'Our mission is to keep the peace, and that is why we must always be prepared for war. The danger of an accident in the Aegean is real,' said air Force General Christos Christodoulou.

Between 2015 and February, 2019, about five billion euros in Russian depositors’ bank accounts was withdrawn.

'Despite our good will we shall do whatever is necessary to defend our rights and just positions and we shall respond,' Akar, the former chairman of Turkey’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, said.

The education minister is not merely copying the practices of the past. He is inaugurating a new type of old party politics that does not bode well for Greece’s problematic education system.

As time passes, the general consensus is that government-backed candidates will be trounced and in most cases will not make it into the second round.

For whom was Petsitis working? For whose sake was he enriching himself? For the sake of this man the country’s first left-wing government destroyed the last shred of its self-declared “moral advantage”.