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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] |
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] |
Vasilis 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 te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Xanthos
Andreas Xanthos is a Greek medical doctor and politician, and Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Rethymno (regional unit), Rethymno on Crete for Syriza. From 2015 to 2019 he served as the Ministry of Health (Greece), Minister of Health in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, Second Tsipras Cabinet. He previously served as an Alternate Minister of Health in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, First Tsipras Cabinet and is a member of the Central Committee of Syriza. Education Xanthos graduated from the medical school of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Medical career Xanthos specialises in microbiology and worked as a national health service doctor at the health centres in Perama and in Rethymno. He was, for several years, chairman of the doctors' union in Rethymno and also a member of the General Council of the Federation of Greek Hospital Doctors (OENGE) and the General Assembly of the Panhellenic Medical Association (PIS). Xanthos took an active role in the esta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caretaker Cabinet Of Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou
The Caretaker Cabinet of Vassiliki Thanou-Christophilou was formed following the resignation of the Syriza-ANEL coalition government on 20 August 2015, and the failure of opposition parties to form their own government. The cabinet was headed by Thanou-Christophilou, the President of the Court of Cassation, who was sworn in as prime minister on 27 August 2015, and the rest of the cabinet were sworn in the next day on 28 August. The cabinet remained in office until the completion of the legislative election on 20 September 2015. Background On 20 August 2015, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who was leading a Syriza- ANEL coalition government, resigned following a rebellion by party members on a key vote related to the third bailout package. Tsipras said that he needed a stronger mandate in order to implement the bailout package, and so called for a snap legislative election to take place in September. According to the Greek constitution, the President of Greece could not jus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syriza
The Coalition of the Radical Left – Progressive Alliance (), best known by the syllabic abbreviation SYRIZA ( ; ; a pun on the Greek adverb , meaning "from the roots" or "radically"), is a Centre-left politics, centre-left to Left-wing politics, left-wing List of political parties in Greece, political party in Greece. It was founded in 2004 as a Parliamentary group, political coalition of left-wing and radical left parties, and registered as a political party in 2012. A Democratic socialism, democratic socialist, Progressivism, progressive party, Syriza holds a Pro-Europeanism, pro-European stance. Syriza also advocates for Alter-globalization, alter-globalisation, LGBT rights in Greece, LGBT rights, and secularism. In the past, SYRIZA was described as a typical Left-wing populism, left-wing populist party, but this was disputed after its government term and its recent opposition. Syriza is the third largest party in the Hellenic Parliament. Former party chairman Alexis Tsipr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panagiotis Kouroumplis
Panagiotis Kouroumblis (; born 2 October 1951) is a Greek politician of Syriza. On 27 January 2015 he was appointed the Minister for Health and Social Solidarity in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. On 23 September 2015, he became the Minister of the Interior and Administrative Reconstruction in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. Early life Blinded at age 10 from the explosion of a German hand-grenade, a remnant of World War II, Kouroumblis took part in a number of student campaigns, and eventually became the leader of a "social uprising" of the blind. He is a founding member of the World Blind Union and worked more generally in the areas of children protection, care for the elderly and people with disabilities. Political career In 1996 parliamentary election, Kouroumblis became the first blind Member of the Hellenic Parliament. He was reelected in 2000 and again in 2009. In 2011, he left Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) to found the anti-austerity I ... [...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] |
Cabinet Of Antonis Samaras
The Cabinet of Antonis Samaras succeeded the Caretaker Cabinet of Panagiotis Pikrammenos after the repeated legislative elections in May and June 2012. The cabinet The cabinet was sworn in on Thursday, 21 June 2012. The former ministries of Shipping, Tourism and Macedonia and Thrace were re-established. The junior coalition partners, PASOK and DIMAR, chose to take a limited role in the cabinet, preferring to be represented by party officials and independent technocrats instead of MPs. Vassilis Rapanos, the prime minister's first choice for finance minister, fell ill before being sworn in, and tendered his resignation on 25 June. Yannis Stournaras was then chosen as the new finance minister on 26 June, and sworn in on 5 July. DIMAR left the coalition on 21 June 2013 in protest at the closure of the nation's public broadcaster ERT, leaving Antonis Samaras with a slim majority of 153 ND and PASOK MPs combined. The two remaining parties proceeded to negotiate a cabinet reshu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caretaker Cabinet Of Panagiotis Pikrammenos
The Caretaker Cabinet of Panagiotis Pikrammenos was sworn in on 17 May 2012 after the end of the period of office of the Cabinet of Lucas Papademos, when an inconclusive election on 6 May 2012 resulted in a hung parliament. According to the provisions of the Greek Constitution, President Karolos Papoulias appointed Panagiotis Pikrammenos, the outgoing chairman of the Council of State, as caretaker Prime Minister after none of the major parties was able to form a government. The subsequent elections were held on 17 June 2012, again resulting in a hung parliament, and this cabinet served until the formation of a coalition government A coalition government, or coalition cabinet, is a government by political parties that enter into a power-sharing arrangement of the executive. Coalition governments usually occur when no single party has achieved an absolute majority after an ... on 21 June 2012. Ministers 2012 in Greek politics Greek government-debt crisis Cabinet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
