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Election Watch: What are Greeks voting for?
Agorathe anti-memorandum culture in Greece before the party came to power in 2012. Also, Greeks cannot ignore... for the last couple of years but has managed to hang in there. Under the new leadership of Fofi Gennimata
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PASOK and Potami seek common ground as Konstantopoulou prepares to return
PoliticsGreek Politicsfrom the personal and political hang-ups impeding the process, the fact that Potami and PASOK rely... anti-austerity and eurosceptic stance and is likely to advocate an exit from the eurozone. Previous
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ND aims to see off threat from right, with focus on fringe religious party
PoliticsGreek Politicsin which both Plefsi and Niki make up the minimum 3 percent while all other parties hang... monasteries in the semi-autonomous Athos peninsula with affiliations to Russia and the anti-Prespes
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Newsletter 383 - 02/06/2023
that Mitsotakis is likely to secure a majority even without their backing. Along with Niki, anti... parties hang on to their shares would give ND 162 seats out of 300. A more extreme simulation in which ND
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Vaccination politics intensify as Greece races to plug immunity gap
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the streets. Wednesday saw the first mass anti-vax rallies in Greece, with police estimating..., including at the recent anti-labour law rallies, they also mark a scaling-up from the much smaller-scale anti-lockdown and anti-mask demonstrations which took place during the lockdown, while the presence
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agora($310 billion) from its bailout is going towards repaying existing debt means the amount Greece owes... pace. Opposing it are SYRIZA, an anti-austerity leftist party on the rise, and Golden Dawn, a racist
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing a wave of sit-in protests by anti-establishment groups, Alternate Citizens’ Protection... Nea newspaper and suggested that the government’s lax attitude to sit-ins and protests by anti... time ensuring that anti-establishment groups do not disrupt public life and dictate policy could
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the past voiced strong anti-immigration and socially conservative views, as Deputy Migration... the deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis
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If Golden Dawn MPs quit Parliament, would Greece go to elections? It's complicated
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the mainstream parties. It has been suggested that this could lead the party’s 18 MPs to resign en masse... criteria this would happen. It is certain that were the Golden Dawn MPs to resign en masse..., there is a possibility that if these by-elections were to happen they could form a rallying point for anti
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Government steels itself for protests, looks for positive in polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor, and then respond to, anti-government protests planned for Wednesday. The demonstrations, organised under the slogan “Resign” (Paraititheite), are due to take place in Athens and Thessaloniki... coalition was formed. It seems unlikely at this stage that the “Resign” protests will have a similar
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