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Opposition party leader Leventis a coalition partner-in-waiting?
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the challenging reforms that lie ahead. State Minister Alekos Flambouraris, one of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s... Kammenos to step down. Kammenos was a minister in one of Karamanlis’s governments when the latter
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Greece's 2016 diplomatic agenda begins with talks on Cyprus and name issue
PoliticsForeign Policythat the Cyprus issue will be one of Athens’s priorities in the months to come. Eide said during his visit... priorities was the one DUI’s president Ali Ahmeti made last Friday, in Athens. DUI is the main ethnic
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Mitsotakis targets Tsipras, floating voters and populists in first speech to his MPs
PoliticsGreek Politicswill be one of his biggest tests in the months to come. In his first choices for key party positions... Vroutsis) and one is a total newcomer, lawyer Niki Kerameus who was elected on the party’s state list
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PASOK and Potami divided over direction to take after Mitsotakis win
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the centre-left. Grigorakos’s dissent was just one of the signs that opinion is divided. Grigarakos is seen... of February but in an interview in Sunday’s Kathimerini, one of its leading MPs, Haris Theoharis
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Mounting pension protests exert more pressure on coalition
PoliticsGreek Politics. Counterbalance As we have mentioned before, one of the government’s key tools in counter-balancing... process for new broadcasting licenses, which SYRIZA has held up as one of the initiatives aimed
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SYRIZA's long, slow march
Agorafailed to have immediate results.” There are probably three ways one could read this comment... relief the IMF recommends but does not want the policies it advocates, which is one of the reasons
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Greece left isolated on migrant crisis, with bailout talks finely poised
PoliticsGreek Politicsof reports that Athens was to receive a new warning (just a few weeks after the last one) that it could.... No one talking about a "suspension of" or "exclusion from" Schengen – no such possibility exists. We
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Pressure on Greece to stem migrant flow puts strain on EU ties
PoliticsGreek Politicsspots ready by the end of February. Only one, on Lesvos, has been completed so far. The EU hopes... but it is clear that one way or another Greece is going to have to hold a much larger number of migrants
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Pension reform a precarious battleground for Tsipras and Mitsotakis
PoliticsGreek Politicsregard it as being even tougher than the one on the table now and closer to what the quadriga of lenders... in power. He also urged the merging of pension funds into three organisations, rather than one
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With bailout review in balance, PASOK's role back in spotlight
PoliticsGreek Politicsscenarios developing about what could happen if the government struggles to close the current review. One... has already ousted one MP, Leonidas Grigorakos, after he suggested that PASOK lawmakers would
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