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Newsletter 387 - 30/06/2023
PoliticsMitsotakis re-elected, Tsipras beaten and far right resurgentSunday’s election delivered a comfortable majority and a second four-year term for Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, dealt..., will engage in the most populist and reactionary opposition possible with the aim of presenting
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Newsletter 398 - 20/10/2023
was soundly beaten by Dimitris Kouretas, a candidate put forward by centre-left PASOK and supported by main... government to “engage your brain” before speaking publicly. The comment was seen by some as a rebuke
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Newsletter 488 - 12/12/2025
MPs vented frustration at Tsiaras, warning they were being “beaten up out there” and even feared... the initial refusal to engage while protests continued. Farmers are due to hold a national meeting
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New asylum law comes up against old failings
Agoraof a policy paper written by the European Stability Initiative (ESI) think-tank last January titled..., the ESI argued that if a similar system is adopted in Greece, the EU-Turkey agreement could be applied... it wants to put in place. “That won’t work,” the head of the ESI, Gerald Knaus told Kathimerini recently
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Parties debate pandemic response as public approval deteriorates
PoliticsGreek Politicsthan to engage in substantive debate. On the other hand, there were several occasions on which...-right Greek Solution party Kyriakos Velopoulos adopted a sympathetic view of anti-mask demonstrators
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Clash over institutional interference primes political mood ahead of local elections
PoliticsGreek Politicswith Chinese officials over Huawei’s efforts to counter US efforts aimed at limiting the telecom giant’s expansion. The claims were made in the wake of a New York Times article that alleged Huawei’s.... Georgiadis denied having any kind of inappropriate relationship with Huawei and insisted that he
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Newsletter 157 -30/03/2018
. The opposition party has urged the government to engage on these issues via the institutional route... in Greece’s economic sentiment (ESI) stopped in March as it dropped by 4.5 points to 99.8, from... the December 2017 reading. Over the last 12 months, ESI has improved by 4.6 points compared to April 2017
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Ex-PMs engage in public spat, highlighting contrasting approaches to Turkey
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe Greek public sphere witnessed last week a rare incident for the country’s political scene - a debate through articles and statements by the two prime ministers who governed Greece between 1996 and 2009 on their views regarding foreign policy regardi...
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Summit to usher in a new stage of EU-China relations
Agorathey see as Beijing’s incremental slide into European territory. Heated debates on Huawei... or the telecoms sector, as the dispute over 5G and Huawei shows. Lastly, the million-dollar question
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Budget deficit of 6.38 bln in Aug confirmed; target beaten due to one offs
EconomyMacroeconomyThe budget primary balance was confirmed at a deficit of 6.38 billion euros in the first eight months of 2021, compared with a deficit of 5.48 billion in the same period last year, the final Finance Ministry (MoF) budget execution data showed on Monday....
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