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SYRIZA has makings of pact with Independent Greeks but To Potami not on board yet
PoliticsGreek Politics. To Potami's leader did not want to play the subordinate to Tsipras's prime minister-in-waiting
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Managing an orderly Greek exit from the memorandum
AgoraThe narrative of how and when to exit the memorandum is currently at the heart of the discussion in Athens. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras insists that Greece does not require a third financial support programme from the troika of international creditors. The 2015 draft budget submitted by Finance
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Greek coalition stands by early bailout exit plans despite fresh blows on bond, stock markets
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe International Monetary Fund. The early exit is Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's main asset in his effort
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SYRIZA builds clear but not conclusive lead in polls as PASOK and GD fade
PoliticsGreek Politicsis now on 27.5 percent against 20 percent for Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s party. Macedonia
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Optimism and obstacles in Spain
Agorafor that reason, the prime minister of Italy, Matteo Renzi, responded ironically hitting Spain’s Achilles
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In survival bid, coalition seeks to ease taxpayer burden, secure early bailout exit
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government submitted legislation to Parliament on Thursday that aims to tie up several loose ends before the troika’s returns but also to live up to the pledge Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Deputy Premier Evangelos Venizelos have made to lighten the burden on Greek taxpayers. The amendment
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SYRIZA's weak foreign, defence policy credentials a vulnerability
PoliticsForeign Policyreceptive to SYRIZA’s request for a briefing and contrasting it to the cold shoulder given by Prime
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ECB results light up path for Greek coalition's bailout exit plan
PoliticsGreek Politicsto begin, but not agree to measures that could harm its popularity even further. Prime Minister Antonis
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With troika review pending, Greek bailout exit plan faces time challenge
PoliticsGreek Politics. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is keen to wrap up the review as this would allow his plan for an early
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No prospect of compromise for entrenched Greek parties
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere will be no meeting of political leaders in Greece to discuss bailout exit plans, debt relief or anything else despite a spate of meetings between party chiefs and President Karolos Papoulias, the only figure that has the authority to convene such talks. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has
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