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Tsipras resigns, paves way for leadership contest at SYRIZA as left looks to regroup
PoliticsGreek Politicsduring the two elections campaign, marking him out as one of the few frontline officials who... backs one of the candidates for the leadership or maintains a neutral stance. SYRIZA has suffered... is that one party might subsume the other or that SYRIZA continues to fade to the point
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Alexis Tsipras, Nanni Moretti and the future of the Greek Left
Agoraleftist Prime Minister in one of the most turbulent periods since Greece’s democratic transition in 1974... organising a referendum in one week, asking the people to reject the bailout package. The Greek... of law. Of course, he is not the only one to be blamed for those defeats. The Greek mainstream media
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Newsletter 388 - 07/07/2023
in Greece, leaving little room for the leftists to target voters in that segment. One of the main... neutral, and one based on common sense policy making and technocratic management. In the wake... one, 2.1 pct for lower transfers and 2.2 pct from higher handouts. The PBO describes this new growth
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Scope Ratings second to give Greece investment grade as attention turns to key players from Sep
Economyup by one notch to ‘BBB-‘, which is within the investment grade category, with a stable outlook... that had moved the country just one notch from investment grade with stable outlook. The subsequent.... Fitch, S&P and DBRS have Greece one notch below investment grade, with Moody’s behind at ‘Ba3
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Government struggles to shake off impact of wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politicsone of the largest ever recorded in Europe. Meanwhile, an analysis of data from the EU’s Copernicus... of the wildfires is just one of the black marks against New Democracy’s record since it was comfortably re... in the coming years. This represents a more challenging task for Mitsotakis than the one he expected a few
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Storm fallout sweeps PM to crucial juncture early in second term
PoliticsGreek Politicsharangued Thessaly Governor Kostas Agorastos as he visited one of the sites affected by the flooding... the area from flooding. One of the key criticisms being levelled at the central and local governments... departments and competencies is seen as one of the key factors that hampered progress. Furthermore, while
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Mitsotakis prepares to meet Erdogan, hoping to build on recent momentum
PoliticsForeign Policyencounter of 2023 took place almost 1.5 years following the previous one, on the sidelines... acknowledges that issues and policies cannot change from one day to another and that “even if we cannot... to take one step at a time in its current rapprochement with Ankara and in restoring the trust
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Outsider Kasselakis on track to lead SYRIZA after securing key backers
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvitation on the basis that, “we are comrades, not adversaries”. Political reactions One of the notable... was one of the candidate’s first backers for the leadership, and who is used by New Democracy... of the circumstances have emerged, at least one defence expert has questioned the rationale
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A leader from nowhere, but to where?
AgoraTsipras, the man who almost single-handedly took SYRIZA from a fringe party to one of power based... she had served in Tsipras's cabinet and was one of the most prominent members of the party. She also... could match Mitsotakis in terms of communication, which has been one of the New Democracy leader's
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Kasselakis completes stunning victory, taking SYRIZA into uncharted territory
PoliticsGreek Politicsspeculation that Tsipras was instrumental in Kasselakis’s ascendancy, beyond being the one who... in February after an outburst against the media and judiciary, among others. Party unity One of the main... leftist roots. He did not congratulate Kasselakis on his win. Tsakalotos was one of the five
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