–Joanna Demopoulou, PhD in International Affairs and former Executive in Residence at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
On 27 July 2026, Greece’s health minister, Adonis Georgiadis, was asked on live television why, some years earlier while a member of parliament, he had messaged a senior figure at Novartis, a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Basel, to have a friend’s website included in a privately run advertising campaign from which it had been excluded. He did not deny it. He said he did it because she was his friend, and then explained that this was nothing out
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