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Scepticism greets govt denials of involvement in surveillance, as communications missteps snowball
PoliticsGreek Politicsto move the agenda on to the inquiry into the phone-tapping of politicians and journalists... that another 7-8 politicians may be under surveillance, and the use of classified budgets which
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Opposition senses PM's position on phonetapping becoming weaker
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe politicians responding to each other’s comments. However, on Thursday, Mitsotakis cut short his... politicians, journalists and former New Democracy MEP Giorgos Kyrtsos. It is clear that if SYRIZA
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Seeking showdown in Parliament, SYRIZA tables censure motion over surveillance report
PoliticsGreek Politicsof being personally responsible for orchestrating large scale surveillance of politicians... Wednesday’s debate on a scheduled visit to Crete, echoed the sentiment. New Democracy politicians have
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What is driving the Greek housing market's recovery?
EconomyFeaturespoliticians are starting to talk about a housing crisis. Here in a follow-up from an earlier feature, we.... Politicians, meanwhile, are concerned that the rising cost of housing is pricing domestic buyers
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Unpopular tax bill set to become law despite objections
PoliticsGreek Politicsof politicians and public officials with spyware, the national intelligence service EYP has written... of politicians, journalists and other public figures. The investigation currently rests with the Supreme Court
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EP president visit and winding up of rail crash inquiry cast spotlight on rule of law concerns
PoliticsGreek Politicsdebate, free from party-political interests. Opposition politicians, however, complained that the visit... criminal involvement by politicians in favour of the lighter-touch inquiry. Parties now have until March
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Fresh turbulence at SYRIZA as opposition parties take aim at bank deal
PoliticsGreek Politics, and several politicians close to Kasselakis’s predecessor Alexis Tsipras. On this occasion... in Parliament on Tuesday, where several opposition politicians expressed strong misgivings. New Democracy’s
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Mitsotakis gets through to Trump with "win-win" message on tariffs
PoliticsGreek Politicspreviously clashed with more right-wing politicians in his own party and opening up more Greek waters..., and other politicians complaining about being excluded from decision-making. Finally, while
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Government moves to shake off Tempe affair after opposition bids at prosecution fall flat
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy succeeded in limiting the scope of judicial proceedings against politicians in relation to the deadly Tempe rail crash after rival motions by opposition parties to widen the net... prospects of a third term. The outcome means that, with prosecutions of politicians limited to Karamanlis
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Parties line up for second day in OPEKEPE debate as rivals accuse PM of cover-up
PoliticsGreek Politicssignalled that government lawmakers will abstain en masse from the votes because of what they see... but will not have the authority to propose criminal charges against politicians. Supporting the motion, PM... judicial inquiries, which are a necessary procedure under Greek law before elected politicians can
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