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ECB report highlights sluggish Greek economic growth
Economymade in the rest of the eurozone. As ECB president, Mario Draghi notes in the report’s opening... percent against an average of 8.6 percent in the EU. Regarding non-performing loans (NPLs), Draghi
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Newsletter 222 -04/10/2019
ministers and aides held talks with outgoing European Central Bank president Mario Draghi in Athens. Draghi was in the Greek capital to be awarded by the Academy of Athens and although he did speak
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Warning signs for coalition after majority trimmed in multi-bill vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) parliamentary groups respectively. As we flagged earlier in the day, SYRIZA’s Stathis Panagoulis abstained from the vote and ANEL’s Nikos Nikolopoulos voted... that has been largely alien to him now; that of the enforcer. His coalition partner, ANEL leader Panos
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Coalition crisis on hold as Kammenos eases up
PoliticsGreek Politics. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who also leads the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL... soften his stance when he denied that he had demanded that Tsipras should dismiss Mouzalas. The ANEL..., for Tsipras to take a decision. His demeanour after the meeting of ANEL's parliamentary group on Thursday
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SYRIZA tests PASOK waters with talk of possible alliance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) have been accompanied by a revival of the effort to explore the idea of Alexis Tsipras’s party working with PASOK in the future. Defence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads ANEL, intervened... SYRIZA that perhaps the alliance between the leftists and the right-wing nationalists of ANEL has run its
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Tsipras focussed on MoU exit in 2018 but will have to avoid pitfalls
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL), suggesting that he would not support any... that it will not support any solution that does not have ANEL’s backing and arguing that the government will have... because it has the trust of the SYRIZA and ANEL parliamentary groups,” said New Democracy
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Coalition braces for Sunday demo, ponders impact on cooperation
PoliticsGreek Politics’s partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), is backing the demonstration and continues to reject the use... Minister Panos Kammenos. The friction between SYRIZA and ANEL is visible, particularly with the verbal... been suggestions from some ANEL deputies that the party might withdraw from the coalition
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Political turbulence due to name deal creates election doubts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL), was ousted from his party. This leaves the coalition with just a three-seat majority... with FYROM because the pact was not supported by the whole coalition as ANEL leader and Defence... will intensify about how long ANEL will be able to prop up the coalition. Given that the next elections
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Kammenos claims approval of name deal a make-or-break moment for coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicslongevity after suggesting that he would pull his Independent Greeks (ANEL) party out of the government... (at least 180 out of 300 MPs) in Parliament. The ANEL leader suggested that he would trigger national... to be that the vote in Greek Parliament will be the trigger for SYRIZA and ANEL to pave the way for a managed
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New Democracy gains MP as new effort to launch nationalist party announced
PoliticsGreek Politicsranks in January, but more recently lost two Independent Greeks (ANEL) lawmakers due to the agreement... with the name deal and to appeal to voters who may have backed Golden Dawn or ANEL in the past. The decline of ANEL, both in terms of opinion poll ratings (it is hovering just below the 3 percent threshold
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