Greece

Greece
Capital city	Athens
Location	Europe
Leader	Greece/Prime Minister
Type	nation state
Member of	European Defence Union, European Union, Eurozone, International Criminal Court, International Energy Agency, La Francophonie, NATO, OECD, UN
Subpage	•Greece/Ambassador •Greece/Debt crisis •Greece/Deep state •Greece/Deputy Prime Minister •Greece/Justice movement •Greece/Leader of the Opposition •Greece/Member of Parliament •Greece/Minister for Foreign Affairs •Greece/Minister of the Aegean •Greece/Prime Minister •Greece/Stay Behind
"In 2006... the third biggest arms importer after China and India."

Greece is a nation state on the Mediterranean Sea. "The fact that Greece, a relatively small and democratic country with not much in the way of global ambitions, should spend as much on its military as it does is perplexing. In 2006, as the financial crisis was looming, Greece was the third biggest arms importer after China and India."

History

Full article: Ancient Greece

Debt crisis

Full article: Greece/Debt crisis

Jeff Schechtman wrote in 2017 that "After the world financial crisis of 2007/2008, Greece became the world’s Lehman Brothers."

Deep political environment

Full article: Greece/Deep state

The Integrity Initiative had two Greek Clusters. The leaked document that revealed this introduces the section by reporting that "Greece is an especially sensitive country in which to operate, given its current political and economic challenges."

Justice movement

Full article: Greece/Justice movement

Some Greek citizens have been demanding that the government take their needs into account, rather than the wishes of the financial oligarchs.

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
2011 Attacks on Libya	Libya	"Perhaps one of the most egregious examples of US military aggression and lawlessness in recent memory", carried out under a pretext of "humanitarian intervention".

 

Events

Event	Description
Bilderberg/1993	The 41st Bilderberg, held in Greece
Bilderberg/1995	The 43rd Bilderberg. Held at the Burgenstock Hotel in Burgenstock, Switzerland.
Bilderberg/2009	The 57th Bilderberg
Greece/Debt crisis	The crisis over Greek sovereign debt which came to a head with the election of the Syriza Party to office in January 2015 and its refusal to accept EU Commission and ECB demands for further dramatic austerity measure on an already desperately impoverished population.
TWA Flight 847	A hijacking by two men who sought the release of 700 Shi'ite Muslims from Israeli custody.

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	Description
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki	1925	One of the top Greek universities
Athens University of Economics and Business	1920	Economics and Business University
National Technical University of Athens	1837	The oldest higher education institutions of Greece and the most prestigious among engineering schools
Panteion University	1927	Linked to the development of social sciences in Greece.
University of Athens	1837	An integral part of the modern Greek academic and intellectual tradition
University of Macedonia	1957	Greek university connected to the integrity Initative

 

Citizens of Greece on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Despina Afantouli
George Alogoskoufis	17 October 1955		Greek economist, multi-Bilderberg
Andreas Andrianopoulos	1946		Greek politician who attended the 1988 Bilderberg, then became Minister of Trade. Was along with fellow Bilderberger Stefanos Manos the main spokesman for the economic liberal tradition in Greece.
Eleni Antoniadou	1988		Deep state-connected greek
Takis Arapoglou			Former Chairman and CEO of the National Bank of Greece.
Stelios Argyros			Greek businessman who attended the 1993 Bilderberg as Chairman of the Board and President of the Federation of Greek Industries
Charles Arliotis	1895	16 July 1981	Greek banker and Minister of Coordination. Bilderberg Steering committee member in the 1960s
Gerasimos Arsenis	30 May 1931	19 April 2016	Attended the 1994 Bilderberg as Greek Minister for National Defense
Dora Bakoyannis	6 May 1954		Double Bilderberg Greek politician
Maria Becket	7 April 1931	29 October 2012	On the report of the 1982 Bilderberg she is listed as "Greece, Former Advisor to Ministers of Coordination and Foreign Affairs"
Prodromos Bodosakis-Athanasiadis	1891	1979	Greek self-made businessman with top politicians in his pocket
Albert Bourla	21 October 1961		Chairman and chief executive officer of Pfizer who termed the COVID jabs "weapons"
Angelos Canellopoulos	4 June 1931	21 November 2009	Greek businessman
Efthimios Christodoulou	1932		Greek Bilderberg businessman and central banker
George Contogeorgis	21 November 1912	9 November 2009	Greek politician. Played an important role in the negotiations for Greek accession to the European Economic Community in 1981.
Yannis S. Costopoulos			Single Bilderberger Greek financier
Theodore Couloumbis	1935		Greek academic with close ties to the United States.
P. Nikiforos Diamandouros	25 June 1942		Greek academic, Ombudsman of the European Union 2003-2013
Anna Diamantopoulou	26 February 1959		Greek politician. Attended 5 Bilderbergs from 2004 to 2009.
Stephan Farrant			Unknown organizer of the 1993 Bilderberg
Anastasios Giannitsis	1944		Greek economist and politician.
Gregory Hadjieleftheriadis	October 1938		Greek shipping magnate who attended the 1993 Bilderberg
Gikas Hardouvelis	8 October 1955		US educated former Greek Minister of Finance. Bilderberg 2011, same year assisting Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos during talks with bondholders about debt and with the Troika on Greece’s second adjustment program.
John Ioannidis	21 August 1965
Basil Kafiris
Panagiotis Kanellopoulos			Attended the first Bilderberg as Greek Defence Minister and former Greek Prime Minister. Also attended the 1956 Bilderberg.
Kostas Karamanlis	14 September 1956		Attended the 1998 Bilderberg as Greece's Leader of the Opposition
Kostas Karras	21 June 1936	6 May 2012	Greek actor and politician. Bilderberg Steering committee, 19 Bilderbergs
Louka Katseli	20 April 1952		Greek economist and central banker who attended the 1984 Bilderberg aged 32.
Niki Kerameus	18 July 1980		up-and-coming Greek politician
Giannos Kranidiotis	25 September 1947	14 September 1999	A greek diplomat and politician who was killed together with his son in a "freak accident" 3 months after attending a Bilderberg meeting.
Ulysses Kyriacopoulos	1952		Greek double Bilderberger, Trilateral Commission
Panayotis Lambrias			Assistant Minister to the Office of the Greek Prime Minister
Tore Lindeman			A whistleblower who appears in Shadowgate.
George Livanos	9 August 1926	1 June 1997	Greek/US shipping magnate who who built up Greece’s largest merchant fleet in the 1980s and 1990s. He attended the 1982 and 1993 Bilderberg conferences.
John Lyras			Greek shipping magnate
Stephanos Manos	20 December 1939		Greek politician who went to the 1986, 1993 and 2001 Bilderbergs
Alexandra Mitsotaki	1956		Second generation Greek Bilderberger, co-founder and president of the World Human Forum
Konstantinos Mitsotakis	18 October 1918	29 May 2017	Attended the 1993 Bilderberg as Prime Minister of Greece
Kyriakos Mitsotakis	4 March 1968		Double Bilderberger politician active in discriminating against non-recipients of COVID injections.
Stavros Niarchos	3 July 1909	15 April 1996	Greek shipping magnate. Worked closely with the CIA. Bilderberger.
Aristotle Onassis	20 January 1906	15 March 1975
George Pagoulatos			market liberal,very europhile Greek economist
John Paleocrassas	March 1934
Paschalidis Panagiotis
Theodoros Pangalos	17 August 1938		Greek politician
George Papaconstantinou	30 October 1961		Double Bilderberg Greek Finance Minister
Lucas Papademos	11 October 1947		Banker and economic hitman who on behalf of international finance implemented severe budget austerity in Greece to establish a debt trap.
George Papadopoulos	19 August 1987		A foreign policy advisor to Donald Trump.
Alexis Papahelas	1961		Greek journalist and editor who has visited 5 Bilderberg meetings.
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Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:A Death Sentence for Greece	article	13 February 2012	Mike Whitney	An analysis and deconstruction of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Greek government and its creditors which secured Greek parliamentary approval amid scenes of unprecedented protests by the Greek population on 11 February 2012.
Document:Integrity initiative: Notes on discussions in Greece	report	2017	Chris Donnelly Integrity Initiative/Cluster/Greece	II looking hard for Russian influence. It "is insidious but everywhere, so it is difficult to pinpoint..Their funding is difficult to identify."
Document:Nato Expansion and Turkey	blog post	17 May 2022	Craig Murray	There is another, specifically Turkish interest in play here, which is very much a factor in Erdogan’s willingness to stand up to Biden over Swedish and Finnish NATO entry. This of course relates to the permanent tension between NATO members Turkey and Greece.
Document:Reactions to the “Skripal case” in Greek newspapers	press monitoring	28 November 2018	Paschalidis Panagiotis	Analysis of headlines in Greek media about the Skripal-affair

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