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Complex privatisation fund faces tall order to reduce Greek debt
EconomyOn top of the fiscal measures yielding 3 percent of GDP by 2018, one of the key prior actions for the conclusion of Greece’s first programme involves the establishment of a new privatisation fund. This was envisaged in the Eurozone Summit statement of l...
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Officials order wider use of masks as upward trend for Covid-19 cases continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe use of face masks for debates in Parliament became compulsory on Wednesday as Greek authorities try to re-instill a sense of caution in the public after seeing the number of coronavirus cases rise significantly this week. The decision to make MPs an...
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Newsletter 183 -16/11/2018
, and is the third increase in apartment prices in almost a decade. Compared to the previous quarter, apartment prices rose by 1 percent, gaining slightly on the previous quarter-on-quarter rise of 0.8.... Apartment prices up by 2.5 pct in Q3 Recovery of real estate market strengthens in latest quarter
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Are politicians in Greece promoting reforms or social cannibalism?
Agoraexpenses. However, the government needed to keep its commitment and someone had to be sacrificed. In order... Interior Minister Leonidas Grigorakos claimed in August that 10 percent of the 85,000 civil servants
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Scars for coalition, questions for SYRIZA after confidence vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament in order to pass laws to meet troika targets. One of the interesting features of the debate... that the government attracted 153 votes of support. Tzakri, a former deputy interior minister, was not a leading
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Stomach for the fight
Agoramoved across from the Public Order to Development, where there was perhaps a feeling that under Costis... and Argyris Dinopoulos as Interior Minister to name a few) who have little to show in terms of achievements
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Coalition caught between pleasing lenders and voters ahead of next troika review
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat this is a tall order. Reports indicate that in a bid to facilitate the September review, Finance... measures. The new Interior Minister Argyris Dinopoulos recently argued that his party would lose votes
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You can call it reform if you like
Agoraissue that needs to be addressed. In order to understand why these contracts have to be reviewed, we..., former Interior Minister and current New Democracy MP. Pavlopoulos has spent the last few years
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New Greek cabinet a mixed bag, prompting hope and concern
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe coalition environment to take over the Public Order (or Citizen's Protection) Ministry. Tsipras... government, to fill this position. His portfolio falls under an expanded Interior Ministry
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Parliament's bailout probe has potential to be politically toxic
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSamaras will be scrutinised. PASOK argues in order for the inquiry to be comprehensive and fair it would... Pavlopoulos, who was interior minister in Karamanlis’s government and one of the former New Democracy’s
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