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Newsletter 401 - 10/11/2023
week in its existence, which has become a norm for the main opposition party since the election... suggested that “the left no longer has a place in the party of Kasselekis, Polakis and (former state... suggests that Kasselakis has not connected with the broader Greek public and that his party is in danger
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Greek politics goes from stability to state of flux
AgoraDemocracy’s leader, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has become caught up in a public row over..., a serving MP, out of New Democracy in a move that rocked the party. All this has happened against... for the conservatives has fallen below 30 pct, which has prompted doubts about whether they can gain
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Newsletter 454 - 07/03/2025
Democracy party has a comfortable majority in the Greek Parliament (156/300 seats) and there is no sign... protests of last Friday, has put more pressure on the government. There is no sign that this pressure... it as the work of a “disparate and nihilistic coalition of the willing”. New Democracy has been trying to argue
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Predator ruling reopens scandal that government hoped had been buried
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOne of the scandals that has haunted Greece’s centre-right administration over the last few years... but has already reignited the political tussle over the affair and placed Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis under closer scrutiny. A misdemeanour court has found Tal Dilian the founder of Intellexa
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Mitsotakis hoping for stability dividend, but Predator lurks in background
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter months of political turbulence, the Greek government believes the ground beneath its feet has... to escape the decline the party has experienced since the 2023 elections. However, there is hope inside the Prime Minister’s office that the geopolitical moment has created a “stability dividend
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Opposition politicians express concern as Greek air defence is deployed in Iran war
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe first confirmed use of Greek military hardware in the Iran war has pushed Athens...”, underlining Greece’s contribution to global fuel supply security. Over recent days, Greece has... a gap in national coverage, while a third has now been deployed to northern Greece to provide
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Greece in danger of repeating familiar mistakes with Golden Dawn
Agora-Nazi party, which has proved a challenge Greece’s political system has been unable to tackle..., which erupted shortly after the 2009 polls, has created fertile ground for extremists. Six years.... The disintegration of Greece’s political system has also played a significant part in the rise
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New Greek cabinet a mixed bag, prompting hope and concern
PoliticsGreek Politics, have been well received but the bakgrounds of the new defense and foreign ministers has caused... Tsipras has indicated that he wants a steady hand at the helm as his government embarks on talks... at the University of Texas. Varoufakis has been involved in drawing up several proposals for tackling
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Newsletter 48 - 23/10/2015
investment of 25 billion has plummeted to just 3.2 billion, following a sharp drop in bank share prices... banks will proceed to similar bond exchange offers in an effort to reduce the amount that has... banks, Eurobank has a major private shareholder, Fairfax, which controls 20.03 percent of its share
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Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
AgoraFor some years now, and especially over the last 12 months, Greece has acted as Europe’s lifeguard...) and the political impact this is having throughout the EU has triggered paroxysms that narrow... controls in the Schengen area) to stem the flow of people to Europe, Greece has been the fall guy, taking
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