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PM embarks on persuasion exercise as political veterans pick up on public discontent
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has launched a fresh campaign to showcase government initiatives on the cost of living and quality of public services, against a backdrop of protests from key sectors. Two... Venizelos told state TV channel ERT that he believes the country has “become ungovernable”. Venizelos
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Farmers’ protests escalate as political veterans express concerns about democracy
PoliticsGreek Politicsan airport, full stop,” he told Naftemporiki TV, drawing a red line around actions that threaten.... Heavyweight interventions The farmers’ protests are unfolding against a wider backdrop of unease about
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Mitsotakis makes new bid to break deadlock with farmers as govt ponders relief measures
PoliticsGreek Politicswould reinforce his authority and isolate hardliners. Relief measures In an interview with Skai TV... parties face significant barriers to voter trust. Against the backdrop of farmer unrest
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Mitsotakis continues balancing act with compromise EU proposal on Trump’s Peace Council
PoliticsGreek Politicson behalf of Mega TV, offers a snapshot of a Greek electorate caught between dissatisfaction.... Against this backdrop, Karystianou’s profile stands out. Though she has yet to formally launch a party
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Mitsotakis lets budget measures sink in as he mulls presidential pick
PoliticsGreek PoliticsERT TV that he would not be announcing his candidate for President until early in the new year.... In an interview broadcast on ERT TV on Tuesday evening, Mitsotakis said he would be announcing his... its course. Speaking on Open TV on Wednesday, leader Nikos Androulakis said the results showed
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No let-up in tension with Turkey as MPs prepare to approve maritime boundary deals
PoliticsGreek Politicsas Turkish provocations in the East Med, including its own maritime agreement with Libya... this, inferior, deal. The opposition party is trying to find a way of criticising ND’s handling
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Turkey maintains maritime pressure as Athens and Ankara court Haftar
PoliticsForeign Policyas Chevron’s decision to submit a proposal for two blocks south of Crete despite the Turkey-Libya... spatial planning (MSF) last April, but since then is trying to leverage its footprint in Libya... the Turkish-Libyan memorandum. Belgacem Haftar, the son of Khalifa Haftar and director of Libya’s
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Athens presses Benghazi in bid to block ratification of Turkish–Libyan maritime pact
PoliticsForeign PolicyGerapetritis and Aguila Saleh, president of Libya’s Benghazi-based House of Representatives. The meeting formed part of Athens’ regular contacts with representatives of Libya’s de facto government... of Exclusive Economic Zones among Greece, Turkey, Libya, Egypt and Cyprus. During the meeting, Gerapetritis
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Amid risk of 2015 re-run, Greece searching for deal with lenders
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the negotiators parted on bad terms, with European Stability Mechanism managing director Klaus Regling
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Newsletter 53 - 27/11/2015
bombing of the Gaza strip and, wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh, spoke to TV cameras about..., that Independent Greeks (ANEL) lawmaker Nikos Nikolopoulos, who voted against the latest set... to him being ousted from ANEL but refusing to give up his parliamentary seat. In contrast, one
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