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PM returns to address hooligan aftermath as SYRIZA gears up for leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politicswith hooligans from Croatia the day before a Champions League game. The Greek authorities have received... Athens and Zagreb. Reports on Wednesday suggest that it will be difficult for the Greek authorities... to confront the club’s owners, which is often a taboo for Greek governments because the chairmen
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Newsletter 398 - 20/10/2023
Greek PoliticsSecond round of local polls gives parties pause for thoughtThe second round of local... opposition party SYRIZA. Kouretas took around 60 pct of the votes in Sunday’s run-off ballot, which... Friday could mark a milestone for the Greek sovereign debt market as S&P is scheduled to publish
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Dissent in ND ranks as SYRIZA leader struggles to find stable pattern
PoliticsGreek Politicsbrushed off the remarks, arguing that Samaras’s positions are well known and that there was nothing... with part of the Greek public. Samaras argued that Mitsotakis is misguided in shifting ND towards the centre of the political spectrum. The former party leader believes that Greek society is shifting
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Opinion polls show drop in support for ND, continuing concern about inflation
PoliticsGreek Politicsin fourth place on 8.2 pct, followed by ultra-nationalist Greek Solution, which seems the big winner... the last two months, to 34 pct, SYRIZA shows no sign of taking off under its new leader Stefanos... the leaders of smaller, fringe parties, such as Kyriakos Velopoulos of Greek Solution and Zoe
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SYRIZA ploughs own furrow as farmers head to Athens for protest
PoliticsGreek Politicson Tuesday for a protest in front of the Greek Parliament. In a TV interview on Monday night, Prime Minister... crisis in SYRIZA is helping take the spotlight off New Democracy. The party’s political secretariat... it is not making any major advances of its own. It is also worth noting that the ultranationalist Greek
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Slower growth nixes handout plans, fires criticism of ND's economic policies
PoliticsGreek Politicsshowed that Greek GDP grew by just 0.2 pct quarter on quarter and 1.2 pct year on year in the final..., claimed that the latest data puts an end to the government’s narrative about a “Greek miracle... to be negative. Until now, high growth rates had allowed the government to fend off any criticism of its economic
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Moody's leaves Greece's rating unchanged, one notch from investment grade
Economyis not a development the Greek authorities can brush off, especially given the communications drive of the recent... the situation for Greek assets. GGBs already enjoy the benefits of the investment grade, fully accepted by the ECB in monetary operations and Greek bonds are included in most leading bond indices
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Demand for cost-of-living measures intensifies as opposition backs strike
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe strike that price hikes continue to eat at the purchasing power of Greek workers, claiming... increases, arguing in a recent interview on state TV channel ERT that large Greek businesses had... was in New York and Washington as a guest of the Greek diaspora for the local celebration of March
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PM eyes broader mortgage subsidies, Kasselakis responds to personal wealth questions
PoliticsGreek Politicsthere to be no doubt on the evening of June 9 that his party is the dominant force in Greek politics.... Greek Solution is on 8.7 pct and the Communist Party on 7.5 pct. Almost 10 pct of voters say they have... for Kyriakos Velopoulos, the Greek Solution leader, and 7 pct for Nikos Androulakis of PASOK
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Parties strive to meet vote targets as interest in European elections wanes
PoliticsGreek Politicswith 26.6 pct, followed by SYRIZA with 13 pct, PASOK with 11 pct, Greek Solution with 7.4 pct and KKE... in the battle for second place. Greek Solution looks set to take fourth place with between 7.3-9.3 pct..., with central projections putting SYRIZA at 13.7 pct and PASOK at 13.2 pct. Greek Solution and KKE poll
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