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Greece reaches for its pills
Agoraof this was condensed (if that is the right word for something that last more than 20 hours) into Wednesday’s... laid bare. At the moment, there is no case against any of those accused other than the statements given... anything suspect about the actions of PASOK minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos. Several years later
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Mitsotakis mixes old hands and technocrats to stamp reformist bent on cabinet
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe 51 ministers sworn in on Tuesday are more than the small, flexible team many expected, the 21 mostly... this role is Akis Skertsos, who was director general of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV... than a technocrat, he can boast that the November 17 terrorist organisation was arrested under his
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Tsipras aiming to guide SYRIZA towards new territory in opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicswill stand unopposed. Should Tsipras win, it will give him an even stronger mandate than SYRIZA’s better than expected result in the national elections to shape the party as he sees fit. It seems certain... at the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), Akis Sketros, as Mitsotakis’s chief of staff as being
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Govt examines how to ease out of lockdown as PM rules out snap elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s chief of staff, Akis Skertsos. They are working out how and when Greece... that the measures would be relaxed as of May 4, rather than May 11 as had originally been suggested. Several... in the government’s approach. Over the last few days, opposition MPs have submitted more than 100 questions
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As plan to ease lockdown progresses, politics turns to non-coronavirus issues
PoliticsGreek Politicsis returning to Greek politics, with issues other than Covid-19 now being addressed. In an interview with Skai TV on Wednesday, State Minister Akis Gerapetritis, said that following the opening of some... to satisfying big business than looking after workers. In fact, in an interview with online news
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Newsletter 262 -04/09/2020
was much higher than the EU28 average in 2018, which stood at 1.3 pct. As a percentage of overall... in 2013, when former defence minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos was jailed for corruption in connection... order book suggests a 7.6x oversubscription. More than 300 accounts participated in the transaction
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Vaccination politics intensify as Greece races to plug immunity gap
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat 4,000 marchers gathered in central Athens, and others putting the estimate at more than 5,000... city Thessaloniki. While the size of the crowds is smaller than those seen habitually in Greece... in the last few days, while Minister of State Akis Skertsos claimed that 60 percent of the country’s adult
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Govt stands firm on 'no lockdown' message, pins hopes on vaccination surge
PoliticsGreek Politicson the results, Minister of State Akis Skertsos argued that SYRIZA has stagnated and turned backwards... that SYRIZA could be faced with a centre-left leader who is both younger than Alexis Tsipras and untainted by MoU-era government, and therefore more likely to attract wavering voters rather than push
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Inquiry into surveillance scandal begins as ND feeds speculation about change to election law
PoliticsGreek Politics, Mitsotakis’s chief of staff, Akis Skertsos said: “At this difficult juncture, we cannot leave Greece... elections, rather than linking the additional seats to the winner’s share of the vote, which is what... of consensus on the opposition, hoping voters will punish its rivals rather than seek to blame New
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Newsletter 375 - 24/03/2023
system which will apply in a re-run. In an interview with ANT-1 TV on Monday, Minister of State Akis... a decline of more than 3 points, followed by SYRIZA on 26.1 pct and PASOK on 9.2 pct, both of which... a yield of less than 1 pct, at 0.87 pct. The offers had exceeded 29 billion euros. With some
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