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Strong resistance within SYRIZA leaves Tsipras with tough juggling act
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe party's mainstream but four were won by the Left Platform and one by SYRIZA's Communist faction... will be involved in a very challenging juggling act over the next few months as he tries to keep both... - the friction within the party will grow. The one factor going in Tsipras's favour at the moment
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Greek children lead way in languages at primary school level
Societyas being good or very good. Moreover, Greece recorded one of the lowest differences – less than two...Greek youth perceive themselves as being very healthy, are more likely to smoke and to learn two... with Romania and Bulgaria, it has a rate of less than 3%. Finland, where roughly one out of four young people
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Greece sees deal by June 5 but size of gaps tells different story
PoliticsGreek Politicson which there has yet to be an agreement suggests it will be very difficult to reach a deal within... that an agreement between Athens and the institutions is “very close.” In fact, the Greek side has been... and the institutions, particularly when one takes into account that there is not yet an agreement on how many
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Most Greek businesses feel capital controls impact, 69 pct see turnover drop
Economy(at 60 euros per depositor) had a high or very high impact on 46 percent of companies with one third.... Around 58 percent of firms said they experienced high or very high impact from limitations on cross..., whilst fewer companies delayed salary payments (3 percent). Almost one quarter of the sample indicated
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When the refugee crisis met the bailout review
Agorathat, balancing economic figures and fiscal targets one side with human lives on the other... and the Greek people are paying a very high price for the problem they themselves did not create,” said European Council President Donald Tusk on his visit to Athens on Thursday. “I want to state here very
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Optimism for Cyprus solution abounds but talks at delicate phase
PoliticsForeign Policy, Ankara said, “disregards, on the one hand, the equal and inalienable rights and interests of the Turkish... compromises and is one of the reasons that he has played down the prospects of an agreement... as individual countries and we are going to keep pushing very, very hard towards a resolution of the Cyprus
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Greek effort to heal rift with Balkan neighbours may have come too late
PoliticsForeign Policyon these issues, which is one of the key reasons behind Skopje’s decision to close the borders with Greece... to other participants. Diplomats noted that the content was very general and that the proposals... in the response from Athens is one of the factors that led to the cooperation between Austria
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Greece treads carefully, hoping to avoid blowback from failed coup in Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policy. As a result, Athens faces a dilemma as on the one hand it does not want to antagonise Turkish President Recep... with, it will be borne very seriously in mind that the arrested parties stand accused in their country... by the Greek Foreign Ministry explained. The fate of the eight Turkish officers was one
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Houliarakis provides clearest view so far on Athens's debt relief expectations
EconomyProgrammeof 3.5 percent of GDP in 2018 but it would be very risky to pursue this fiscal performance for more than one year. The basic European Stability Mechanism (ESM) scenario, without any debt relief measures..., pointing out that for the Greek economy to grow a number of structural weaknesses, such as the very
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Macron arrives in Athens, kindling government's hopes
PoliticsGreek Politicsvision for eurozone reform, which is one of the key reasons for the enthusiasm with which he... government would very much like to see the back of the IMF (although in the short-term, this does raise... Germany’s backing, Berlin sees the creation of a common budget in a very different way to what
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