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Holding out for a (reformist) hero
Agorapotential miracle worker, or “Harvard-educated free-market reformer”, as the Wall Street Journal... bureaucracy and weak political will have to be overcome. The Wall Street Journal writes.... “Nobody is without sin,” Samaras told journalists in Berlin during a visit to German Chancellor
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Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
Agoraclaims against police be included in a new immigration code. A recent Wall Street Journal article.... The rest is deadly serious. Baltakos claims he told lies during the discussions with Kasidiaris... was blocked last year. On Friday, former Justice Minister Antonis Roupakiotis told Skai TV that Baltakos
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Newsletter 277 -11/12/2020
PM rebuffs Covid-19 criticism Mitsotakis defends govt stance but is forced to extend some measures until Jan After being forced to extend Covid-19 restrictions into January, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tried to defend this week his, and his gover...
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Why did Greece return to bond markets now? Was it the right decision?
Economypercent, banks for 14 percent and pension and insurance funds for 4 percent. The Wall Street... have told the media that Greek banks will now have a lower reference rate, that of the 5-year rather...? Finance Ministry officials have told journalists that the next move would involve the placement
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Coalition not ditching referendum idea from policy options but details muddled
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSakellaridis returned to the subject on Friday, when he told Vima FM that a referendum would only be held if talks with creditors hit a wall. “The referendum would be about the points which led to a dead... on the country’s bailout terms, he was told the only subject in the referendum could be whether Greeks
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Tsipras seeks tone of cooperation and persistence at Merkel talks
PoliticsGreek Politicsbetween Greece and Germany as it is leading to the promotion of stereotypes on both sides. As the Wall... over the last five years,” he told reporters. It is no coincidence that in the briefing note... the country’s lenders will react. Government spokesman Gavriil Sakellaridis told Mega TV on Tuesday
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Newsletter 68 - 01/04/2016
was in 1989, the year that the Berlin Wall fell. Since then, there have been 12 general elections... billion euros) by 2018, government spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili told a regular press briefing earlier... not in a rush to become prime minister,” he told Skai TV. Greeks have paid dearly for the headstrong rush
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis speak to their MPs but address wider audience
PoliticsGreek Politicsmirrored to a certain extent what Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos told the Wall Street Journal...,” Tsipras told SYRIZA lawmakers. Citing Greece’s high unemployment rate, Tsipras said there was no “logic
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Newsletter 106 - 10/02/2017
Dimitris Papadimitriou told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. For even a preliminary agreement... Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem criticised the IMF’s assessment of Greece one day and then told Dutch
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Personal responsibility and public healthcare: Greece on a wing and a prayer
Agora. This was underscored in a recent Wall Street Journal article on the different approaches to the virus in Italy... in Greece, told journalists that the coronavirus was like a “heavy flu,” which was not highly infectious... deliver a clear message, he treaded on eggshells. Mitsotakis told millions of viewers that he felt
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