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Govt unveils affordable housing scheme, but struggles to shunt wiretapping aside
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s appearance in Thessaloniki over the weekend, when he set out a raft of policies aimed at tackling the cost-of-living crisis, the government has tried again to move the focus of the political debate back to its proposed measures even though the opposition remains focussed on delving deeper into the phonetapping scandal.
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SYRIZA, PASOK leaders prepare responses to stark choice presented by PM
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras and PASOK chief Nikos Androulakis prepare to travel to Thessaloniki to provide their responses to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s speech at the trade fair on Saturday, the surveillance scandal continues to be a bone of contention between the government and the opposition.
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Surveillance affair snowballs as opposition makes new spyware claim
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe phone tapping scandal took another twist on Friday, when a SYRIZA MP claimed that he, too, had been targeted by the Predator spyware, fuelling an already very tense atmosphere between the government and the opposition, epitomised by MPs walking out of the parliamentary inquiry.
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Surveillance hearings in Athens and Brussels highlight contrasting approaches to issue
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs the special parliamentary inquiry into the surveillance of politicians and journalists convened in a tense atmosphere to agree the terms of engagement in Athens, a hearing at the European Parliament gave the stand to three journalists involved in uncovering the controversial practices.
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Inquiry into surveillance scandal begins as ND feeds speculation about change to election law
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe parliamentary inquiry into the wiretapping scandal is due to get underway on Wednesday in a tense political atmosphere and with main opposition party SYRIZA believing that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis might try to duck his responsibility by making a quick change to the electoral law and calling snap elections.
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Scandal erodes support for ND, complicates path to elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s efforts to focus attention on its fight against the cost-of-living crisis continue to be undermined by the increasingly acrimonious clash with the opposition over the phone-tapping scandal even though opinion polls continue to show Greeks are more concerned by inflation than anything else.
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Parties tussle over scope of surveillance probe as latest poll puts Mitsotakis in frame
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere has been no let-up in the pressure on Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his government to account for the surveillance of a politician and a journalist by Greece’s national security service, with a meeting of the relevant parliamentary committee set to be followed by a special parliamentary inquiry.
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Opposition pushes for phone-tapping probe as early polls claim limited damage to ND
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing on quickly from Friday’s fractious party leaders’ debate on the phone-tapping scandal, Parliament reconvenes in Athens to vote on PASOK-KINAL’s proposal to hold a parliamentary inquiry into the affair.
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First head-to-head clash over spying scandal in Parliament fails to deliver decisive blow
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA much-anticipated party leaders’ debate in Greek Parliament on Friday was heavy in terms of accusation and counter-accusation but did not produce a definitive moment that could shape political developments decisively in the coming days and weeks.
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Scepticism greets govt denials of involvement in surveillance, as communications missteps snowball
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe confirmation hearing on Wednesday for the new head of the national intelligence service kicked off what promises to be a stormy political season, with opposition parties intensifying the pressure to move the agenda on to the inquiry into the phone-tapping of politicians and journalists.