Politics
Government seeks fiscal leeway over energy investments, launches farming subsidy app
Greece has formally requested to activate the EU’s energy escape clause, while the government also launched on Thursday the MyAgro platform, which Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presented as a decisive break with the opaque practices exposed in the OPEKEPE scandal.
Athens bets on French backing to break GSI deadlock with Turkey
The agreement signed on Wednesday in Athens, allowing French infrastructure investment group Meridiam to acquire a 66 pct majority stake in the Great Sea Interconnector (GSI), is far more than a corporate transaction. It represents a fundamental geopolitical recalibration of one of the European Union’s most strategically important energy projects.
French entry into cable project reframed as geopolitical win amid recycling tenders scrutiny
PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis hopes that the inking of a deal injecting French participation into a landmark cross-border infrastructure project will issue a strong signal going into the summer recess, embodying both his government’s ability to attract large-scale inward investment and to project regional influence.
Government moves on fire compensation as opposition sharpens its questions
The aftermath of the wildfires that swept Western Attica and Boeotia continues to dominate the political agenda, with the government moving quickly on compensation while the opposition presses a more detailed line of questioning about prevention and operational failures.
Mitsotakis intervenes in EU migration debate as PASOK challenges wildfire policy
The political temperature in Athens has risen sharply in recent days, shaped by three converging dynamics: the Greek government’s alarm over the crisis in Ceuta and the wider debate on “weaponised migration”; PASOK’s intensifying pressure on the government over the wildfires that have devastated parts of the country; and the increasingly direct confrontation between PASOK and the new challenger ELAS, which is itself preparing to take the next step in its emergence ahead of the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF).
Extensive wildfires put extra strain on PM as he looks for clear path to TIF policy speech
The dense smoke that settled over Attica in recent days captured, with brutal clarity, the scale of the destruction Greece is facing this summer due to an extensive outbreak of wildfires.
PM urges ministers to focus on delivery, not be distracted by likely long election campaign
As Greece enters the final stretch before the August break, Kyriakos Mitsotakis has used the last cabinet meeting before ministers take their vacations to send a clear message: the government must accelerate delivery, sharpen its public presence and prepare for a long pre‑election period culminating in national polls in spring 2027.
Firefighter deaths overshadow cabinet meeting as exodus from Elpida party continues
Three firefighters died on Wednesday battling wildfires in Crete and the southern Peloponnese, casting a shadow over the government's last cabinet meeting before the summer recess.
PM uses island visit to highlight border control as Tsipras makes decentralisation play
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis used a visit to the Aegean island of Leros on Monday to sharpen the binary choice he wants voters to confront at the next election, contrasting the current state of border security and migration management with the record of SYRIZA-ANEL government he replaced in 2019.
PM and ministers go on the road as constitutional revision vote fails to yield consensus
The government is mounting an effort to reconnect with regional Greece ahead of the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), as Alexis Tsipras attempts to redefine the progressive space through an ambitious overhaul of local government.