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Government under pressure from TV permit and Attica Bank claims
PoliticsGreek Politicsneeded to take part in the tender. The final piece of potentially incriminating evidence against... concern about the developments, culminating in Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis suggesting
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Saving Angela Merkel with the help of Alexis Tsipras
Agora. As has been argued by some in the past (including the author of this piece), Greece and Germany both... interior minister – Horst Seehofer – from the junior coalition partner CSU had threatened
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Newsletter 213 -07/01/2019
. According to the timeline set out in the piece, Mitsotakis envisages being sworn in as prime minister... Theodorikakos, may take over the Interior Ministry, Nikos Dendias might become the next foreign minister
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Government struggles to shake off impact of wildfires
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs the massive wildfire in Evros, northeastern Greece, continues to burn, the government and opposition are preparing for two key set-piece events in the coming days, which they hope will revive... caused by the blaze in Evros has prompted the government to send a team of ministers, led by Interior
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Newsletter 404 - 01/12/2023
. Another piece of data that caught the attention this week was the first unemployment rate in single.... It emerged on Tuesday that the 11 have decided that former interior minister Alexis Charitsis
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Opposition parties continue to pursue wiretap claims, as surveillance bill passes first hurdle
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe intelligence service EYP to the operation of the Predator spyware via a government contractor... from invoices and bank statements pertaining to the activities of EYP contractor Krikel, which..., transactions totalling 5.3 million euros linked to the government contractor appear to have escaped
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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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Is a lack of spending hampering Greece's firefighting capabilities?
Societywith a widely shared opinion piece, which concluded by inveighing against the Troika of the country..., which contribute seasonal contractors to the fire-fighting effort, have also enjoyed a greater
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Domestic factors seen playing role in PM's pick for European Commission
PoliticsGreek Politicsthey argued would render wealth declarations meaningless. Another major piece of legislation debated..., journalists and public contractors. Promoting the bill, the government focussed on the automation
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Greek union data suggest workers get paid late or in kind
Societymoney, according to data gathered by the Labour Institute (INE) of the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE). A report in the Greek daily “Ta Nea” that cited figures compiled by INE-GSEE... consecutive years of decline up to 17.2 percent. The INE-GSEE data presented by the daily paper also show
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