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Government unites in rejecting Hormuz deployment as PM advocates fiscal escape clause
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the Iran war. Gerapetritis condemned attacks on Greek merchant ships and called on Europe to rise... to give member-states the flexibility to combat price rises resulting from the Iran war. Measures have.... In order to get around the fiscal constraints, the prime minister framed his proposal
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Newsletter 502 - 24/04/2026
this week confirmed that support for New Democracy has slipped back to pre‑Iran war levels, erasing... of their own immunity in order to clear their names, and all had done so. But the unity was fragile... war, combined with political pressures from scandals and controversies on the domestic front, forced
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Complex privatisation fund faces tall order to reduce Greek debt
EconomyOn top of the fiscal measures yielding 3 percent of GDP by 2018, one of the key prior actions for the conclusion of Greece’s first programme involves the establishment of a new privatisation fund. This was envisaged in the Eurozone Summit statement of l...
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Officials order wider use of masks as upward trend for Covid-19 cases continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe use of face masks for debates in Parliament became compulsory on Wednesday as Greek authorities try to re-instill a sense of caution in the public after seeing the number of coronavirus cases rise significantly this week. The decision to make MPs an...
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In bid to polish SYRIZA's image, Tsipras visits Mount Athos monks
PoliticsGreek Politicstriggered an embargo on Union imports by Moscow. There is a connection between the two in the sense... about SYRIZA’s criticism of the EU’s approach to Russia. The embargo could cost Greece as much
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Athens goes along with EU over Libya, waits for Turkey's move at UN
PoliticsForeign Policythe deployment of warships to enforce the United Nations arms embargo on Libya. According to the EU foreign... that this operation will have as a goal the implementation of the arms embargo imposed by the United Nations
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Govt counts cost of own energy package as hopes of coordinated EU response fade
PoliticsGreek Politicsan immediate embargo on Russian oil, asking for such a measure to be delayed until autumn or winter..., are in favour of a staged oil embargo. Political pressure The government is sticking to the narrative
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Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
Agoraof double agent, giving Golden Dawn MPs harmless morsels in order to glean information from them. One has... Order Minister Nikos Dendias’s drawer before they were sent to prosecutors and why this happened only after the extremist party caused trouble on Samaras’s home patch, at the Second World War memorial
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Newsletter 6 - 5/12/2014
. It is not yet clear The government needs to decide which lane to take in order to exit the programme... the Second World War. By also choosing to use the presidential vote as leverage in a push for snap elections... in order to elect a president and avoid early elections. The term refers to the decision in 1965
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Newsletter 28 - 29/05/2015
must be achieved in a very short space of time in order for there to be an agreement. The prospect... authorities, in order to bring them closer to market prices. During the election campaign, SYRIZA had pledged... since the Second World War to govern virtually on its own (Independent Greeks being mostly
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