Search
-
Reconstruction funds at centre of local elections, as ND makes final push for second round
PoliticsGreek Politicsregions remaining to be contested, as well as the city of Athens where the party’s candidate... as the capital and the second largest city, Thessaloniki. On Thursday morning, the prime minister made... PASOK, pressed Bakoyiannis to account for the cost of the controversial city centre
16% -
Opposition lines up attack on government over wildfires with visits to affected areas
PoliticsGreek Politics, farmland, villages and the suburbs of the country’s third largest city, Patras. The leader of main... on the city of Patras, where the communist mayor Kostas Peletidis was singled out for attacks by government officials after criticising the centralised response to a blaze which encircled the city for 48
16% -
New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis
14% -
University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
PoliticsGreek Politicsinvestigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior
14% -
Five things to take away from the first round of Greek local elections
PoliticsGreek Politicson the political scene. It grabbed first place in the region of Attica and a close second in the City... cause in the City of Athens and region of Attica, where around a third of Greek voters live... MP Ilias Panagiotaros got just over 11 percent of the vote. In the City of Athens the party’s
14% -
Name and shame
Agorathat it is the northern city’s fate to be the gathering point for politicians and citizens with unrealistic.... But it paled next to the 1 million or so who gathered in Greece’s second largest city in 1992... (ANEL) MP and the vandalism of the city’s Holocaust memorial. The impression left is that if Mitsotakis
14% -
Tsipras claims he is in no hurry to call elections after bailout exit
PoliticsGreek Politicsdoes not turn back and remains an open and democratic city,” he said. “I support the mayor’s... a long trend during which New Democracy had been in control of Greece’s second-largest city. Should..., the chances of the conservatives re-gaining the city could be slimmer. It should be noted
14% -
Newsletter 270 -23/10/2020
in northern Greece, and particularly the country’s second largest city Thessaloniki... of Viotia. The northern city of Kastoria entered level 4, bringing into force a local lockdown, the second city to do so in the past week after Kozani. SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras visited Kozani
14% -
Govt prepares to increase energy subsidies, lifts most Covid restrictions
PoliticsGreek Politicsexceeding the capacity of the city’s ICUs. Concerns are being raised by the government’s decisions... of public celebrations of the feast of the city’s patron saint St Demetrius, which were directly linked to the most serious outbreak of the pandemic in the city last autumn. The government spokesman Yiannis
14% -
Minister discounts lockdowns, vaccine mandate extension amid Covid surge
PoliticsGreek Politicsrecorded in Greece’s second largest city Thessaloniki, compared to 554 in the greater Athens area, which... student parties marking the start of the academic year and crowds gathering to celebrate the city’s... ICUs. On Thursday there were 44 new hospital admissions for Covid at the city’s reference hospital
14%