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Political impact of spying revelations unclear, as drip-feed of information continues
PoliticsGreek Politics, who have consistently demanded to know how widespread EYP’s surveillance has been among...’s cyber unit could have had anything to do with the Predator software. No official denial has been... to install spyware on Androulakis’s phone, and proceed with the formation of a special inquiry committee
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Phone-tapping scandal causing ripple effect across political scene
PoliticsGreek Politicsis preferrable to Mitsotakis’s economic liberalism. Karamanlis’s moderate approach also allowed him to maintain... Court prosecutor that is investigating the leaking of EYP’s activities, rather than the wiretapping... him about EYP’s surveillance and not about the use of Predator to track his communication. Koukakis
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As battering from spy scandal continues, ND invests in broadening scope of inquiry
PoliticsGreek Politics, the phone-tapping scandal shows no signs of going away. The latest blow to New Democracy’s credibility regarding the spying affair came from a report by Politico on Wednesday that Greece’s permanent...’s general secretary, also Mitsotakis’s nephew, resigned amid revelations that the agency had been
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Greece beefs up border security to counter migration flow
PoliticsForeign Policythe country’s borders. The Council for Foreign Affairs and Defence (KYSEA) decided on Tuesday... a no man’s land since neither of the two countries responded to the migrants’ desperate calls for help. It should be noted that Turkey has not responded either to the Greek Foreign Ministry’s announcement
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Scepticism greets govt denials of involvement in surveillance, as communications missteps snowball
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the course of the closed hearing to reiterate their call for an immediate inquiry into the service’s... from surveillance” lends credence to their suspicions that the service’s phone-tapping programme... to confidentiality. For PASOK, the response raised the need for further scrutiny of EYP’s practices both in regard
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ND moves to discredit SYRIZA programme, muses over far-right alliance
PoliticsGreek Politicsprogramme presented over the weekend. A row has erupted over the costing of the opposition’s... amounts to 9.35 billion of spending and 3.74 billion of revenues. The figures are not far off ND’s... calculated the spending element at 27.35 billion, almost tripling SYRIZA’s estimate and resulting
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SYRIZA and ND square up on cost-of-living crisis as government attempts to draw line under surveillance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe opposition has upped the stakes in its attempt to challenge the government’s economic narrative, indicating that this will be the main avenue of attack on New Democracy’s record on the road to elections. In the first Prime Minister’s Hour of the parliamentary season, SYRIZA leader Alexis
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Scandals chip away at ND's lead as SYRIZA tries to cut through on surveillance issue
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy’s lead over SYRIZA has declined noticeably over the last few weeks, according... on the previous survey. This is the centre-right party’s lowest reading in an MRB poll since March..., this is the left-wing party’s highest score for more than a year, although the increase in support has been very
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PM hits back at surveillance list claims, falls out with ally
PoliticsGreek Politicsaffair, which had him eavesdropping on his own cabinet ministers and some of the country’s most... of slanderers and serial blackmailers sponsored by SYRIZA. During the interview on ANT-1 TV’s primetime... of surveillance are connected and ultimately sanctioned by the PM’s office. On Monday SYRIZA leader Alexis
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Dendias's Libya tangle cuts off Athens-Tripoli communication
PoliticsForeign PolicyCouncil, Mohamed al Menfi, also Libya’s former Ambassador to Greece. When Dendias’s airplane landed in Tripoli, however, the GNA’s Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush was waiting to meet him. Foreign... to Athens and summoned the Greek chargé d'affaires in Tripoli to protest the Greek foreign minister’s
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