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PM insists on 3 pct election threshold, unveils plans to entice diaspora voters
PoliticsGreek Politicslist to direct election by overseas voters. The Interior Ministry will be responsible... threshold that parties need to pass to elect MPs in Greece’s national elections. Mitsotakis made... three MPs dedicated to representing them. Mitsotakis’s insistence that “naturally, the threshold
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Value of HFSF participation in Greek banks falls to 17 billion
EconomyBankingof 859 million was recorded due to the drop in the valuation of bank warrants. The highest negative... core banks. In addition, since HFSF’s shareholding dropped below the 50-percent threshold, it now
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Newsletter 235 -17/01/2020
was 2.82 billion, municipalities spent 1.12 billion, social funds 166 million and 859 billion... to 50 extra MPs. According to the proposal, if the winning party passes the 25 percent threshold
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Bailout talks, SYRIZA bickering continue - no definite end date for either
PoliticsGreek Politicson Tuesday, are taking place against a backdrop of ongoing bickering within SYRIZA despite... meant that ex-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis had committed treason. Panousis's superior, Interior
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Greece left isolated on migrant crisis, with bailout talks finely poised
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat this is happening against the backdrop of the bailout deliberations where, again, Greece’s... Mouzalas went into an informal meeting of European Union interior ministers on Monday on the back
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Government struggles to shake off impact of wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politicscaused by the blaze in Evros has prompted the government to send a team of ministers, led by Interior Minister Makis Voridis, to Evros on Monday. The officials travel to the region against a backdrop
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Ionian gas deal strengthens government's aspiration of becoming US energy gateway
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitical backdrop remains fraught. While the Mitsotakis administration is keen to showcase energy... in Athens — including Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and Ambassador
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Professional liars in pandemic times
Agorawill not get vaccinated because he has previously recovered from corona. He also implied... Instagram commenting that the vaccine against corona has been around for some time... that the corona virus is "the funniest flu", and that women could go on "shopping tours to Milan
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Greek pensions laid bare
Agorapensions amounts to 884 euros. Note, though, that for around 45 percent of pensioners their monthly... and they receive on average monthly pensions of 771 euros. This is below the overall average of 884 euros since
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PM joins forces with some eurozone partners to lobby for "corona-bond"
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and eight other European leaders wrote a letter to European Council president Charles Michel on Wednesday, ahead of Thursday’s teleconference, arguing for a coordinated eurozone-level response to mitigate the impact of...
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