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Tsipras keeps bailout issues in safe hands but fails to inspire with new cabinet
PoliticsGreek Politicsand academic Nikos Kotzias also remains as foreign minister, while there is no change at the Justice Ministry, where Nikos Paraskevopoulos will continue. Tsipras, however, has scrapped the special... due to his criticism of the left and other government members. His place is taken by Nikos Toskas
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Ministry changes lined up ahead of reshuffle but no breakthrough on watchdog
PoliticsGreek Politicsinclude Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos, Citizens’ Protection Minister Nikos Toskas, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Energy Minister Panos Skourletis, despite his recent face-to-face meeting
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Coalition's ideological contrasts highlighted but Kammenos quashes rift talk
PoliticsGreek Politicsa row that broke out a day earlier after parliamentary speaker Nikos Voutsis, also a SYRIZA MP... Nikos Fylis attempted to change textbooks for religion classes in schools, prompting an intervention..., when it was announced that the father of Digital Policy Minister Nikos Pappas, economist Stelios
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Continuity and priorities
Agorathe last couple of years. New Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias is considered a moderate politician... conference in Athens, new Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos said that he was concerned about..., especially in the Aegean. It will be interesting to see when Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Nikos Dendias
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Accused of U-turn over extension of territorial waters at home, ND steps up diplomatic drive abroad
PoliticsGreek Politicsforward by departing SYRIZA Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias in 2018. At the time, ND’s foreign affairs... the EEZ agreements in Parliament, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias announced that the government’s next..., Greek FM Nikos Dendias is scheduled to brief his EU counterparts on the situation with Turkey
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Low expectations for progress in new round of UN-led Cyprus talks
PoliticsForeign Policyby Greek leader Nikos Anastasiadis. Afterward, the Turks assessed the situation, concluding, ‘Now... Minister Nikos Dendias said that he wished he could be optimistic that common ground could be found... by a proposal tabled by President Nikos Anastasiades about a “de-centralised federation” which is also
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Tsipras repeats call for elections with one eye on rising KINAL
PoliticsGreek Politics. The SYRIZA president has also signalled the end of the grace period for new KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis... criticism for third party KINAL and its new leader Nikos Androulakis. He warned that the “grace period... Mitsotakis remains the most popular politician with 48.7 pct of respondents, Nikos Androulakis comes
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Opposition parties reject official conclusions of surveillance inquiry
PoliticsGreek Politicsexpected the special parliamentary inquiry into the surveillance of PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis... the surveillance. According to the local media, the report finds that the surveillance of Nikos... minister from scrutiny. SYRIZA argues that the government failed to justify the surveillance of Nikos
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Dendias's Libya tangle cuts off Athens-Tripoli communication
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe diplomatic incident that took place last Thursday morning at Tripoli airport has stoked a new crisis in the already strained Greek-Libyan relations. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias had been... the Ministers of Defence of the two countries during a joint visit of Nikos Dendias, Nikos Panagiotopoulos
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Tragedies bring period of calm in Greek-Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign PolicyMinister Nikos Dendias and his Turkish counterpart held on Monday as well as in the telephone call on Thursday between the two countries’ defence ministers. Nikos Panagiotopoulos and Hulusi Akar... highlighted in statements that Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias made on Thursday following his first
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