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Big two parties strengthen grip on voters, but dominance remains elusive
PoliticsGreek PoliticsBogdanos, an independent MP who was expelled by ND a year ago after making a series of incendiary anti-immigration and anti-Communist statements which embarrassed the ruling party. Bogdanos formed a short... the fractured picture there is a substantial pool of voters backing the ultra-nationalist anti
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Kasselakis offers more hints of a positive narrative for SYRIZA's post-Tsipras era
PoliticsGreek Politicssocial media posts. Anti-LGBT+ violence A shocking incident which took place in Thessaloniki over the weekend has raised the subject of rising anti-LGBT+ violence. On Saturday, police made 21 arrests after... Ferreira expressed concern about a rise in anti-LGBT+ rhetoric and violence. During the debate, Greek
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PM tries to steer agenda back to reforms as OPEKEPE scandal rumbles on
PoliticsGreek Politics, as the PM’s announcements were immediately undermined by news of that the national anti-money laundering... cast the PM’s anti-bureaucracy initiatives in a different light. It will be hard for New Democracy... that the government’s efforts at damage control could backfire badly. The findings of the anti-money laundering
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More concern for coalition than cheer for SYRIZA in latest poll figures
PoliticsGreek Politicspoints more than the vacuous anti-memorandum Independent Greeks. This can hardly be a cause...-fulfilling prophecy. The government will not be heartened by the fact that anti-memorandum sentiment
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Golden Dawn fallout forces Samaras into balancing act between country and party
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Antonis Samaras was probably expecting the latest troika review of Greece’s adjustment program to be his biggest worry at this time of year. Instead, the murder of an anti-fascist.... To some extent, this is a problem of his own party’s making as its strong anti-immigration line
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Puzzling reaction to army reservists' call for government to resign
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat are a mix of anti-bailout fantasy and military bombast. Apart from asking for the government... and Justice ministries to meet Supreme Court prosecutors, including one responsible for overseeing anti
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Ex-minister's jailing a boost for faltering sense of justice
PoliticsGreek Politicsprosecutor Yiannis Tentes took over a newly created post in the summer as Greece’s anti-corruption supremo. He will coordinate efforts to tackle graft and draw up a national anti-corruption strategy
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Golden Dawn murders generate new test for Greek democracy
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the shooting, in which a third man was seriously injured, were not clear straight away. Greece’s anti.... That these groups tend to be linked with anti-capitalism and anarchism means that the debate over
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Are Independent Greeks and SYRIZA set to become odd bedfellows?
PoliticsGreek Politicsis not universally accepted in Kammenos’s anti-bailout party, nor has SYRIZA reacted enthusiastically... a "large, anti-memorandum, patriotic democratic front" ahead of local elections. The MPs did not refer
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Independent Greeks to go it alone rather than join grand right-wing alliance
PoliticsGreek Politicsnipped in the bud. The anti-austerity Independent Greeks, led by former New Democracy MP Panos Kammenos... will be burnt. This would leave an anti-austerity alliance with SYRIZA as the only option. There are many
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