The invisible thread that connects wiretapping, pipeline diplomacy, natural gas, the deadly fires of 2007, threats against the former prime minister, the veto in Bucharest, Vatopedi, and December 2008 is unraveled for the first time through a multitude of documents and legal texts...shedding light on the real protagonists as well as all forms of ambitions during the governance of Kostas Karamanlis.

The Confidential Karamanlis Files attempt a second reading of the critical milestones of the 2004-2009 governance, capturing converging and diverging strategies, attitudes, and resistances of domestic and foreign political forces, goals, and prospects for Greece and Europe, placing at the center of the reading the new energy map and the redistribution of natural resources in the Euro-Russian zone and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Unknown documents, testimonial statements, legal and diplomatic texts come to light for the first time, composing the mosaic of Karamanlis's governance, a period that "sealed" Greek politics in the early 21st century. People, forces, institutional and non-institutional centers emerge through a gripping narrative, which illuminates the unseen aspects of Kostas Karamanlis's governmental period, revealing the causal relationships and strong motives for its accelerating decline.