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Samaras escalates row with PM as ELAS tries to build credibility
PoliticsGreek Politicsis to personalise the conflict with Mitsotakis rather than with ND as a party. His team believes... to construct an image of a booming economy and citizens supposedly richer and more comfortable than in 2019... - 53% above 2019 - and are roughly 1.5 percentage points of GDP higher than then, suggesting
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The rise of a "Spanish SYRIZA" transform’s country’s politics
Agorain a TV debate. As a result, Iglesias has 100,000 more followers on Twitter than the Spanish prime minister, Mariano Rajoy, and seven times more than the secretary general of the PSOE, the young Pedro... and is still larger than the sum of both parties’. But that is not what its rivals envy most: Podemos has
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Govt tables 2018-21 MTFS containing 4.5 bln in measures, sees growth rising from 1.8 pct this year
EconomyProgrammepercent, lower than the recent IMF and European Commission (EC) forecasts of 2.2 and 2.1 percent... percent) higher than that for imports (+2.8 percent). For 2018, the MTFS assumes a faster GDP rebound of 2.4 percent, which is lower than the IMF and EC estimates of 2.7 and 2.5 percent respectively
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Newsletter 510 - 26/06/2026
. The organisational build‑out has been rapid. In less than a month, ELAS has attracted tens of thousands of members... on restructured loans, reducing monthly payments for more than 100,000 borrowers. After initial... had been out of work for more than 12 months - nearly double the EU average of 31.5%. This suggests
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Newsletter 46 - 09/10/2015
indication of whether Tsipras will be able to have a greater command over his party than in the past... and parliament who are prepared to invest political capital and mobilise the administrative capacity to engage..., but time is a luxury. The second Syriza-led government will have to engage in repair work on its
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Erdogan makes forceful start to visit, catches Athens off guard
PoliticsForeign Policycompounded the feeling that the Greek government would have preferred Pavlopoulos not to engage... on stronger bilateral ties to engage with Ankara. However, the start to Erdogan’s trip suggests... and Tsipras before their meeting was milder than the discussion with Pavlopoulos moments earlier
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Greek-Turkish enmity to continue as polls loom, sea borders come into play
PoliticsForeign Policyto engage in aggressive rhetoric, while Athens seems unable to restore communication channels with Ankara. In reality, neither of the two sides is ready or willing to engage in genuine efforts to begin... ‘casus belli’ is unacceptable, Katrougalos stressed that the issue is what Greece, rather than
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Greece and Turkey take step forward in ties after leaders' talks on UNGA sidelines
PoliticsForeign Policythis difference for more than 40 years, but this does not mean that it is destined to remain... to the negotiating table, to at least establish mutual trust, and to engage in a frank and honest... in New York that he was ready to immediately resume reunification talks, urging Turkey to also engage
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Tusk proposals over refugee quotas puts Athens on alert ahead of EU summit
PoliticsGreek Politicsyet to be relocated under the quota system agreed more than two years ago. Hungary and Slovakia... the overcrowding at hot spots. There were more than 4,000 arrivals each month in September..., less than 2,000 migrants had been sent back by Greek authorities. The Greek government seems
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Multiple facets of inequality in Greece: a decade of divergence between data and daily life
Societycoefficient, reflecting a sector where a small minority earns disproportionately more than the majority... for more than half of all unemployment even during periods of growth. As the report notes, this leads... students”: more than half of university students remain enrolled beyond the expected duration
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