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Newsletter 508 - 12/06/2026
PoliticsND enters campaign mode as SYRIZA steps aside and Samaras loomsGreek politics has entered... strategy and the broader opposition landscape. New Democracy has shifted into campaign mode, Kyriakos Mitsotakis has sharpened his message of stability and continuity, SYRIZA has taken
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Samaras escalates row with PM as ELAS tries to build credibility
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor manoeuvre. Over recent weeks, pressure on Maximos has begun to converge from multiple directions: Antonis Samaras has escalated his personal confrontation with Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the Predator... long‑running dispute with the government. He has repeatedly raised the issue in Parliament
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About
No image availableMalkoutzis, a journalist who has spent more than 15 years covering Greece for local and international... also wrote a weekly column for the newspaper. His work has also appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek and other international publications such as Die Zeit and The Guardian. Nick has written several
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How big is Greek fiscal gap? Will cuts be needed? Here's our Q&A
PoliticsGreek Politics" with Greece's lenders. Essentially, this means that the Greek government feels it has hit a brick... from the equation, Merkel has taken the matter back to square one and the troika's return to Athens... for an amount that might reach as much as 800 million. No troika official has spoken publicly
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The EU, the troika inquiry and the big disconnect
Agoraand arduous, and has exerted – and is continuing to exert – hard sacrifices,” said European Council... the eurozone bailouts have been constructed and implemented has been long overdue. The inquiry, led... of the S&D group, has the authority to conduct public hearings with key institutional figures and to visit
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Newsletter 17 - 27/02/2015
those belonging to SYRIZA’s Left Platform, which is led by Energy Minister Panayiotis Lafazanis, has.... Varoufakis has suggested that one way of covering the shortfall would be for the European Central Bank to release 1.9 billion from profits it has made by buying Greek bonds on the secondary market (SMP
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Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016
not offered any assessment at that stage. The IMF spokesman also said on Thursday that it has.... In the context of the review, the Finance Ministry has also to prepare and present the medium-term... that he is targeting the support of anyone who has voted for PASOK, SYRIZA, Potami and New
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One year of SYRIZA
Agoraown Great Depression, or perhaps Greater Depression given that it has been bumping along the bottom... at home and abroad has been that a recovery is just around the corner. Each time events have proved them... that the outcome would be any different. Nevertheless, the SYRIZA-led government has been a disappointment
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Newsletter 66 - 11/03/2016
since mid-August that the ECB did not reduce the ELA cap, which has been lowered 13 times by a total... on border poses biggest problem Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has staked a big part of his future... refugees in a more orderly fashion. Greece reacted positively to the plan. Athens has been
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The men who would be prime ministers
AgoraThere has been much consternation in Greece over the last few years about the economy’s inability... by elections, of which there has also been no shortage in recent years. During the “memorandum era”, Greece has had four national elections, building on a rich tradition of governments not seeing out
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