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Ousting of govt MP brings to fore leadership unease, angst over far right
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis has ousted the deputy from New Democracy’s parliamentary group, reducing...,” concluded Dendias, who has in the past earned plaudits for confronting Golden Dawn MPs head... parliamentarian in the past. This has also fuelled speculation that the PM felt he had to take
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C/A deficit to April narrows by 34.7 pct boosted by services
EconomyMacroeconomy. The year to date net flow widened accordingly to 5.6 billion from 310 million at the end of the first... of GDP in both years. The BoG has recently downward revised its previous more ambitious projection
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Athens buoyed by content, mood of Mitsotakis trip to Washington
PoliticsForeign PolicyEurope. Additionally, Mitsotakis has announced the appointment of Nikos Tsafos, a member of the Center... the world's longest submarine power cable (310 kilometres (190 mi) from Israel to Cyprus and 898
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Top EU prosecutor lambasts anti-corruption efforts, calls for reform to bring ex-ministers to justice
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the misuse of infrastructure grants which she has linked directly to the deadly 2023 Tempe rail accident... Karamanlis and former rural development ministers Lefteris Avgenakis and Makis Voridis. Kövesi’s blunt statements will make uncomfortable listening for the government, which has insisted that it has done
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Predatorgate and OPEKEPE offer opposition ammunition amid deteriorating public sentiment
PoliticsGreek Politicsaltogether has also been hinted at by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Rural Affairs Minister Kostas...A court case over the deployment of illegal spyware has revived the opposition’s claims that the PM..., which has been assigned responsibility for farm payments in a move which the government says
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Mitsotakis seeks to appease farmers as they sow grievances on streets of Athens
PoliticsGreek Politicsby an outbreak of sheeppox, the government is keen to shore up support among rural voters ahead..., the government has recently come under pressure from farmers over an outbreak of sheeppox that has.... The centre-right administration has tried to play down the impact of the disease but has faced growing
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Small parties suffer as Parliament edges towards vote on name deal
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitical environment that is putting huge pressure on Greece’s smaller parties. Centrist To Potami has... the details of the agreement first emerged. It has been rumoured for some time that Psarianos and Amyras... caught party officials by surprise as it has been agreed only days earlier that MPs would be free
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University bill passes as parties' ideological dividing lines are laid bare
PoliticsGreek Politicsmore police officers. Both parties suggested that ND has a hidden agenda, which is to drive students away from public universities and to private colleges, which the government has already given... Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has appealed to and continues to covet. Right-wing developments
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Is the Greek coalition about to cry over fresh milk?
PoliticsGreek Politicswill be found, as the government has done in the past when it was threatened by a rebellion from rural... the government’s already strained cohesion. One coalition MP after another has been saying since last week... urban markets.” The government has not given precise details about what it has agreed with the troika
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Newsletter 443 - 29/11/2024
of rescuing SYRIZA from a downward spiral that has seen it slip not only from second position in the polls, but even below third place. The decline has prompted many commentators to wonder whether the leftists... for the past year and where the government has not been able to put forward convincing solutions. Since
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