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France and Greece upgrade defence pact as regional and political risks loom
PoliticsForeign Policyand delivering practical solutions. Renewed engagement with Libya The visit of Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis on Monday to Tripoli, Libya, marked a significant step in revitalising bilateral... was another key topic during Monday’s talks. Gerapetritis noted that flows from western Libya to Greece
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Omnibus bill passes but leaves marks on coalition and SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsto consider. Samaras ousted Nikitas Kaklamanis, the one New Democracy MP who failed to provide full support... on the futures of his party’s two rebels, who were veteran lawmaker Apostolos Kaklamanis and former
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Greek coalition reaches milestones but PASOK looking increasingly weary
PoliticsGreek Politicssupport the omnibus bill. One, New Democracy’s Nikitas Kaklamanis, was ousted from his party... George Papandreou and veteran Apostolos Kaklamanis, were not ejected from PASOK. By all accounts
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Government hoping dispute with farmers on way to being resolved as it counts cost of damage
PoliticsGreek Politicsalready reacted angrily to a suggestion by parliamentary speaker Nikitas Kaklamanis (New Democracy.... During a TV appearance, Kaklamanis suggested that opposition politicians were using the live hearings
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Gov't adopts patchwork of measures to overcome liquidity problems
EconomyProgramme: 310 million on March 6, 348 million on March 13 and 581 million on March 16. The last tranche... remaining 310 million relate to 90 percent of HFSF current cash reserves that until the end of 2015
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Government tries to contain fallout from breach of voters' data
PoliticsGreek Politicsgiven the ongoing investigation into a potential data breach at the Interior Ministry. The MEP... Data Protection Authority, the Interior Ministry and a public prosecutor. It was also announced on Friday that Interior Ministry general secretary Michalis Stavrianoudakis and New Democracy’s secretary
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Investigations into voter email leak continue despite denials from government
PoliticsGreek Politicsof separate investigations by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country’s Data...-Michelle Asimakopoulou from the upcoming EP elections and the resignation of a senior Interior... that the email list was leaked from the Interior Ministry during the tenure of the caretaker
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Greece to pay IMF but concluding negotiations will be a tougher task
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere were no surprises from Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis’s meeting with International Monetary Fund managing director Christine Lagarde in Washington on Sunday but the government in Athens still faces a challenging few days ahead. Lagarde co...
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Greeks graduating after 2011 encountered limited opportunities, low pay
SocietyA report by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) has revealed that graduates in Greece after 2011 were twice as likely to be unemployed as graduates in the overall working-age population, and that the majority of them earned salari...
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Tsipras eyes review conclusion, insists SYRIZA patience will pay off
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras assured SYRIZA’s political secretariat on Monday that the government will manage to wrap up the third review on time and that better days are on the way for his party. Speaking to SYRIZA officials after the departure of the...
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