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Ministry Of Citizen Protection (Greece)
The Ministry of Citizen Protection () is the government department responsible for Greece's public security services, i.e. the Hellenic Police, the Hellenic Fire Service, Hellenic (Corrections) Prison System, the Agrarian Police and the General Secretariat for Civil Protection. The ministry existed until 2007 as the Ministry of Public Order (). On 19 September 2007, it was merged with the Ministry of the Interior, Public Administration and Decentralization and reduced to a General Secretariat within the Ministry of the Interior. On 7 October 2009, it was revived as the Ministry of Citizen Protection (Υπουργείο Προστασίας του Πολίτη) and was eventually renamed as the Ministry of Public Order and Citizen Protection on 21 June 2012. Following the electoral victory of Syriza in January 2015, it was subordinated to the Ministry of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction and was headed by an Alternate Minister (Αναπληρωτής Υπουρ� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Arms Of Greece
The coat of arms of Greece (, ) or national seal of Greece comprises a white Greek cross on a blue escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon, surrounded by two Bay laurel, laurel Laurel wreath, branches. It has been in use in its current form since 1975. Prior to the adoption of the current coat of arms, Greece used a number of different designs, some of which were not heraldry, heraldic; the first heraldic design was introduced in 1832 and its main element, the blue shield with the white cross, has been the base for all other national coats of arms since then. The design is a heraldic representation of the Flag of Greece#Adoption, Greek national flag adopted in 1822, which featured a white cross on a blue field. The proper heraldic description of the coat of arms is: . The Law regulating the coat of arms does not specify a tincture (heraldry), tincture for the laurel branches, implying ''Proper (heraldry), proper'' (or Vert (heraldry), vert, i.e. green). Official usage portrays the lau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PASOK
The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (, ), known mostly by its acronym PASOK (; , ), is a social democracy, social-democratic List of political parties in Greece, political party in Greece. Until 2012 it was Two-party system, one of the two major parties in the country, along with New Democracy (Greece), New Democracy, its main political rival. After a decade of poor electoral outcomes, PASOK has retained its position as one of the main Greek political parties and is currently the second largest party in the Greek Parliament. Following the Metapolitefsi, collapse of the Greek junta, Greek military dictatorship of 1967–1974, PASOK was founded on 3 September 1974 as a Socialism, socialist party. Formerly the largest left-of-center party in Greece between 1977 and 2012, PASOK lost much of its popular support as a result of the Greek government-debt crisis, Greek debt crisis. PASOK was the ruling party when the economic crisis began, and it negotiated the First Economic Adjustment P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgios Voulgarakis
Georgios Voulgarakis () (born 4 June 1959 in Heraklion) is a Greek politician and the former Minister for Mercantile Marine, Aegean Sea and Island Policy. Voulgarakis was born in CreteBiography on Greek Parliament website . and holds a PhD in Political Marketing and Communication from the . He is a member of the party. He has been elected to parliament from the Athens A' Election Area constituency since the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philippos Petsalnikos
Filippos Petsalnikos (; 1 December 1950 – 13 March 2020) was a Greek politician of the Movement of Democratic Socialists. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament. Before, he was a Member of the Hellenic Parliament from 1985 to 2012. Life Born in Mavrochori, Kastoria, Petsalnikos studied law in Greece and Germany. Political career In 1985, he was elected for the first time as an MP for the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). He served as the Minister for Macedonia-Thrace between 22 October 1996 and 30 October 1998, the Minister of Public Order between 30 October 1998 and 19 February 1999. Petsalnikos resigned in the aftermath of the Abdullah Öcalan's capture. Later he acted as the Minister of Justice between 24 October 2001 and 10 March 2004. He was elected to the position of Speaker on 15 October 2009 by 168 of the Parliament's 300 MPs. On 3 January 2015, it was announced that Petsalnikos would join former prime minister Papandreou Papandreou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sifis Valirakis
Iosif (Sifis) Valirakis (, 12 March 1943 – 24 January 2021) was a Greek politician of the historic Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) cadre. His first name, the Greek form of Joseph, is commonly represented in its Cretan diminutive ''Sifis'' ("Joe"), by which he is popularly known. Life He was born in 1943 in Chania on the island of Crete. His father, Ioannis Valirakis, was an officer in the Hellenic Army and a member of the Centre Union party. He studied electrical engineering in Germany and Sweden, with a specialization in industrial automation. He spoke English, German and Swedish in addition to Greek. Anti-junta activity As a leading member of the anti-junta resistance and of the armed branch of the Panhellenic Liberation Movement, Valirakis was wanted by the Greek military regime for three years for bombings and was finally apprehended in 1971 and jailed by the Special Investigative Section (ETA) of the Greek Military Police (ESA). Nevertheless, he escaped by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stelios Papathemelis
Stelios Papathemelis () (born January, 1938 in Thessaloniki) is a Greek politician and lawyer. He studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Political career He was elected for the first time MP with EK-ND in the elections of 1974. He was re-elected with EDIK in 1977. Afterwards, he joined PASOK and was appointed Deputy Education Minister in 1982-1985, Minister for Macedonia and Thrace in 1987-1989 and Minister for Public Order in 1993-1995. During his term as Minister of Public Order, he faced strong opposition, mainly by the owners of the night clubs and bars, for a 2am curfew he imposed on clubs and bars. His decisions were seen as trying to control nightlife and as being contrary to the Greek spirit of leisure. He later left PASOK and was elected as an independent MP on the New Democracy list for Thessaloniki in the 2004 elections. Though he started his political career in a liberal party and was later in a socialdemocratic one, he is now considered a l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yiannis Vasiliadis
Ioannis Vasilεiadis (; 1924 – 30 March 2012) was a Greek politician and former admiral who served as a Member of Parliament from 1985 to 1993. During this time he was deputy National Defense Minister with the government of July 1989, and Minister of Public Order The Ministry of Citizen Protection () is the government department responsible for Greece's public security services, i.e. the Hellenic Police, the Hellenic Fire Service, Hellenic (Corrections) Prison System, the Agrarian Police and the Gener ... from 1990 to 1991. ''kathimerini.gr,'' 30 March 2012 (Greek) References , -[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ioannis Kefalogiannis
Ioannis Kefalogiannis (; 6 December 1933 – 20 January 2012) was a Greek politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 1958 to 1964, and again from 1974 to 2004. During this time he was briefly Minister of Public Order, Minister for Tourism, and Minister of the Interior An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ....Former New Democracy Politician Giannis Kefalogiannis Dies at 79 ''Greek Reporter,'' 20 January 2012 His daughter is the Cabinet Minister [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panagiotis Markopoulos
Panagiotis Markopoulos () (1916–1996) was a Greek Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: *Greeks, an ethnic group *Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family **Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all kno ... politician. He was three times Minister of the Interior of Greece (1984, 1985, 1989). He was acting minister of public order (1989). References 1916 births 1996 deaths Ministers of the interior of Greece Ministers of public order of Greece {{Greece-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apostolos Tsochatzopoulos
Apostolos-Athanasios "Akis" Tsochatzopoulos (; 31 July 1939 – 27 August 2021) was a Greek politician, engineer, and economist. He served as a minister in several Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) cabinets between 1981 and 2004 most notably Minister of the Interior three times and the Minister of National Defence during the Andreas Papandreou and Konstantinos Simitis governments respectively. Tsochatzopoulos was a founding member of PASOK. He was elected to the Hellenic Parliament for the first time in 1981 and remained in seat until 2007. On 1 July 2011, amid accusations of corruption scandals, the Hellenic Parliament voted in favor of pressing charges against him. He was subsequently convicted and received a 20-year prison sentence on 7 October 2013. In April 2018 he was granted early release from prison due to deteriorating health. Political career Tsochatzopoulos was a founding member of the PASOK party. In 1981, he was elected to the Hellenic Parliament and was a s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonis Drosogiannis
Antonis Drossoyannis (, January 26, 1922 – November 5, 2006) was a Greek Army general and politician of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and cabinet minister. Life Born in 1922 in the village of Dafni, Phthiotis, he enrolled in the Hellenic Army Academy in 1939. Upon the start of the Greco-Italian War in October 1940 he was sent to the Albanian front. Following the German invasion of Greece and the occupation of the country, he fled to the Middle East where he joined the armed forces of the Greek government in exile, first in the ranks of the 2nd Greek Brigade and then in the Sacred Squadron special forces unit, with which he fought in the Western Desert and Tunisia Campaigns, as well as in operations against the German garrisons of the Aegean islands. During the Greek Civil War (1946–49) he was commander of the 62nd Mountain Raider Company, and in 1955–58 commanded the Raider Units Training Centre (KEMK). He served in various staff and command positions of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agamemnon Koutsogiorgas
Agamemnon Koutsogiorgas (; 1922 – 18 April 1991), commonly known as Menios Koutsogiorgas (Μένιος Κουτσόγιωργας), was a Greek lawyer, police officer and politician. As a close associate of Andreas Papandreou, the founder and leader of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), Koutsogiorgas emerged as one of the most powerful cabinet members during PASOK's 1981–1989 government and was widely regarded as Papandreou's heir apparent. Embroiled in the Koskotas scandal, however, he was brought before a Special Tribunal. During the procedure, he collapsed in the courtroom on 11 April 1991 and died a week later. Early life and professional career Koutsogiorgas was born in May 1922 in the village of Rodini in Achaea. During the Axis Occupation of Greece in the Second World War, Koutsogiorgas was active in the '' Omiros'' resistance group, and was arrested and imprisoned by the Italian occupation authorities. He studied at the Law School of the University of Athens, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
