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2015–16 New Democracy Leadership Election
The 2015–16 New Democracy leadership election refers to the two-round election to determine the next president of New Democracy, after the resignation of Antonis Samaras on 5 July 2015. The first round was held on 20 December 2015 and the second round was held on 10 January 2016. Kyriakos Mitsotakis was elected as the new president. Procedure Whilst the election had originally been expected to be held on 30 August 2015, 57 MPs called for interim leader Vangelis Meimarakis to stay on until spring 2016, postponing the leadership election. However, following ND's election loss in the early September 2015 elections, leadership elections were planned to be held before year's end. The central electoral committee of the party met on 24 September at the request of interim leader Vangelis Meimarakis, to begin the electoral process. They set out a timetable as follows: * 1 October - end of candidate registration period * 4 October - end of objection period * 5 October - final approv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
EPP Zagreb Congress In Croatia, 20-21 November 2019 (49099472986) (cropped3)
EPP or Epp may refer to: Organisations * European People's Party, a pan-European centre-right conservative and Christian democratic political party ** European People's Party Group, the centre-right political group formed in European parliament by members of the above party * Engineering and Public Policy, an academic department at Carnegie Mellon University * Equal Parenting Party, a Canadian political party * European Public Prosecutor, a proposed EU agency * Paraguayan People's Army () Science and technology * Encrypting PIN pad, a component of an automated teller machine * End-plate potential, a neuroscience term* * Endpoint protection platform, in computer security * Enhanced Parallel Port, a specification of the IEEE 1284 computer peripheral communication standard * Enhanced Performance Profiles, a PC memory specification * Erythropoietic protoporphyria, a genetic disorder * Expanded polypropylene, a flexible and versatile plastic foam * Extended projection principle, a ling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Health (Greece)
The Ministry of Health () is the government department responsible for managing the health system of Greece. The incumbent minister is Adonis Georgiadis, Vice President of New Democracy and member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Athens B1 constituency. List of ministers Health and Social Solidarity (2004–2012) Health (2012–2015) Health, Social Security and Social Solidarity (January 2015–September 2015) Health (since September 2015) See also * Health care in Greece * List of hospitals in Greece * Panhellenic Association of Ergotherapists External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ministry of Health (Greece) Health Health Government of Greece Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ... Greece, Health 1982 establishments in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Greek Politics
Fifteen or 15 may refer to: *15 (number) *one of the years 15 BC, AD 15, 1915, 2015 Music *Fifteen (band), a punk rock band Albums * ''15'' (Buckcherry album), 2005 * ''15'' (Ani Lorak album), 2007 * ''15'' (Phatfish album), 2008 * ''15'' (Tuki album), 2025 * ''15'' (mixtape), a 2018 mixtape by Bhad Bhabie * ''Fifteen'' (Green River Ordinance album), 2016 * ''Fifteen'' (The Wailin' Jennys album), 2017 * ''Fifteen'', a 2012 album by Colin James Songs * "Fifteen" (song), a 2008 song by Taylor Swift *"Fifteen", a song by Harry Belafonte from the album '' Love Is a Gentle Thing'' *"15", a song by Rilo Kiley from the album ''Under the Blacklight'' *"15", a song by Marilyn Manson from the album ''The High End of Low'' Other media * ''15'' (film), a 2003 Singaporean film * ''Fifteen'' (TV series), international release name of ''Hillside'', a Canadian-American teen drama * "Fifteen" (''Runaways''), an episode of ''Runaways'' *Fifteen (novel), a 1956 juvenile fict ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makis Voridis
Mavroudis (Makis) Voridis (; born 1964) is a Greeks, Greek politician with the New Democracy (Greece), New Democracy and a lawyer, who serves as the current Ministry of Migration and Asylum, Minister for Migration and Asylum. He was previously involved in far-right politics and associated with dictator Georgios Papadopoulos.. A member of the Hellenic Parliament since 2011, Voridis previously served as Minister of State (Greece), Minister of the State in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis (2023 - 2025), Ministry of the Interior (Greece), Minister for the Interior (2021 - 2023), and Ministry of Rural Development and Food (Greece), Minister for Rural Development and Food (2019 - 2021) in the First Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Ministry of Health (Greece), Minister for Health in the Cabinet of Antonis Samaras (2014–2015), and Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (Greece), Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks in the Cabinet of Lucas Papademos (2011–201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vassilis Kikilias
Vasilis Kikilias (; born 15 May 1974) is a Greek politician, currently Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Insular Policy in the second cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis. He is a member of the Hellenic Parliament for New Democracy in the Athens A constituency. He is also a retired professional basketball player who played for Panionios B.C., Ionikos Nikaias B.C., AEK B.C., Apollon Patras B.C. and the Greece men's national basketball team. Basketball career Kikilias started his basketball career with Panionios BC and Ionikos Nikaias, and he then moved to AEK Athens. He was a member of the AEK team that won the 2000 "Saporta" European Champion Cup and the 2002 Greek Basketball A1 League. He was also a member of the Greece National team. Basketball career achievements * Had 6 caps and scored 76 points with the Greece men's national basketball team.According to the Hellenic Basketball Federatiowebsitein Greek), Kikilias played 6 games with the Greece men's National Basketball ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olga Kefalogianni
Olga Kefalogianni (; born 29 April 1975) is a Greek politician who served as Minister of Tourism of the Greek Government from 2012 to 2015 and again since 27 June 2023. She was appointed in this position by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in June 2012. She is a Member of Parliament, representing the New Democracy party. She has been elected two times in the Cretan prefecture of Rethymno in the 2007 and 2009 general elections. In the 6 May 2012 elections, she was voted in the first position as Member of Parliament for the important District A of Athens constituency. She was re-elected in the same position in the 17 June 2012 elections, and again in January 2015. She is the daughter of former minister and member of parliament, the late Ioannis Kefalogiannis. She was married to Greek businessman Manos Pentheroudakis from 2010 to 2020. On 3 May 2021 she married composer Minos Matsas in Spetses. On 8 May she announced that she is pregnant with twins. She obtained a bachelor's degr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister Of Greece
The prime minister of the Hellenic Republic (), usually referred to as the prime minister of Greece (), is the head of government of the Greece, Hellenic Republic and the leader of the Cabinet of Greece, Greek Cabinet. The officeholder's official seat (but not residence) is the Maximos Mansion in the centre of Athens. After the Executive State (Greece)#Presidency of the Government, Presidency of the Government () was established, the office is referred to either as Prime Minister or President of the Government (). Election and appointment of the prime minister The prime minister is officially appointed by the president of Greece. According to Article 37 of the Constitution of Greece, Greek Constitution, the President of Greece, president of the Hellenic Republic shall appoint the leader of the political party with the parliamentary majority, absolute majority of seats in the Hellenic Parliament, parliament as prime minister. If no party has the parliamentary majority, ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kostas Karamanlis
Konstantinos A. Karamanlis (; born 14 September 1956), commonly known as Kostas Karamanlis (, ), is a Greek retired politician who served as Prime Minister of Greece, prime minister of Greece from 2004 to 2009. He was also president of the Centre-right politics, centre-right New Democracy (Greece), New Democracy party, founded by his uncle Konstantinos Karamanlis, from 1997 to 2009, and a member of the Hellenic Parliament from 1989 to 2023. Karamanlis was first elected as a member of the Hellenic Parliament for New Democracy in June 1989 Greek legislative election, 1989 and became president of the party in 1997. After leading the opposition in the Hellenic Parliament for seven years and his narrow defeat in the 2000 Greek legislative election, 2000 parliamentary election, he served as the List of Prime Ministers of Greece, 181st Prime Minister of Greece for two consecutive terms, winning the 2004 Greek legislative election, 2004 election, with an all-time record number of votes, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikos Dendias
Nikolaos "Nikos" Dendias (; born 7 October 1959) is a Greek lawyer and politician of the conservative New Democracy (Greece), New Democracy party who has been serving as Minister for National Defence (Greece), Minister for National Defence in the Second Cabinet of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, government of Prime Minister of Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis since 2023. He is a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens, and previously served as Minister for National Defence (Greece), Minister for National Defence from November 2014 to January 2015 and as Minister for Foreign Affairs (Greece), Minister for Foreign Affairs from July 2019 to May 2023. Early life and education Dendias was born in Corfu in 1959, but he originates from the island of Paxos. He went to school in the Athens College, received a degree in law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a Master of Laws in Maritime and Insurance Law from the University College London and in Criminology from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Bakoyannis
Theodora "Dora" Bakoyanni (, ; née Mitsotaki, ; born May 6, 1954) is a Greek politician. From 2006 to 2009 she was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece, the highest position ever to have been held by a woman in the Cabinet of Greece at the time; she was also Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe in 2009. Previously she was the Mayor of Athens from 2003 to 2006, the first female mayor in the city's history, and the first woman to serve as mayor of a city hosting the Olympic Games. She also served as Minister for Culture of Greece from 1992 to 1993. Bakoyannis has been serving as an independent member of the Hellenic Parliament representing unofficially Democratic Alliance, the political party she founded in 2010, having been expelled from the opposition New Democracy party due to voting against the party line. In May 2012, due to the critical situation in Greece before the elections and given the established electoral law, Democra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dimitris Avramopoulos
Dimitris Avramopoulos (; born 6 June 1953) is a Greek politician of the conservative New Democracy party, and former career diplomat. He has served in various high-level cabinet posts, including Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for National Defence, and was Mayor of Athens from 1995 to 2002. He served as EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship in the Juncker Commission between 2014 and 2019. Personal life Avramopoulos was born in Athens in 1953, into a family which had originally come from Ilia and Elliniko in Arcadia. He served his 26 months military service from 1978 to 1980 in the Hellenic Air Force. He is married to Vivian, with whom he has two sons, Filippos and Iasonas. Apart from his native Greek, he speaks English, French and Italian fluently. Diplomatic career In 1980, Avramopoulos joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Athens, where he worked until 1993. From 1988 to 1992, he served as Greek Consul to Belgium in Liège. At the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Macedonia
Central Macedonia ( ; , ) is one of the thirteen Regions of Greece, administrative regions of Greece, consisting the central part of the Geographic regions of Greece, geographical and historical region of Macedonia (Greece), Macedonia. With a population of almost 1.8 million, it is the second most populous region in Greece after Attica (region), Attica. Geography The region of Central Macedonia is situated in Northern Greece, bordering the Administrative regions of Greece, regions of Western Macedonia (west), Thessaly (south), Eastern Macedonia and Thrace (east), and bounded to the north at the international borders of Greece by the Republic of North Macedonia and Bulgaria. The southern part is coastal and is bathed by the Thermaic Gulf, Thermaic, Toronean Gulf, Toroneos, Singitic Gulf, Singitic and Strymonian Gulf, Strymonic gulfs. The largest city and capital of the region is Thessaloniki. Serres is the second most populous city, followed by Katerini, Veria and Giannitsa. Cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
