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Tsipras positions SYRIZA as defender of democratic institutions amid row over police corruption
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has launched the party’s election campaign with a call for the defence of democratic values against what he describes as an abuse of power by New Democracy. The call... Parliament and call elections immediately, threatening that SYRIZA would abstain from any votes until
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Mitsotakis backs Ukraine as Athens tries to balance position with Trump administration
PoliticsForeign Policythat “nothing can be decided for Ukraine without Ukraine”. Following his telephone call with Ukraine’s president Volodimir Zelensky on Saturday, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that he would join today’s leaders’ call... Trump’s call Zelensky a dictator. He said that the US president has a special way to express himself
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Predator row deepens as Tsipras publishes ideological roadmap for new party
PoliticsGreek Politicscall for his resignation. The institutional tension spilled directly into party politics. A fierce... and the ecological sensibility of the Greens. “Some call this management,” it concludes. “We call
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Polls show Golden Dawn support dropping after murder, New Democracy profiting most
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor New Democracy fell from 20.1 percent to 19 percent and SYRIZA saw its ratings drop from 20.5... 5.3 to 4.3 percent. The only two parties that saw their ratings rise were former coalition partner
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Why did Greece return to bond markets now? Was it the right decision?
Economyis just one paving stone in this process. It signifies an end to one part of the crisis, which saw.... There is a flipside, though. For starters, the first day of trading for the new bond saw the yield climb
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Historic victory for SYRIZA in EU vote unlikely to dislodge Greek coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsopposition party could point to the fact that New Democracy and PASOK (Elia) saw their share of the vote drop... saw its support decline by a combined total of almost 11 percentage points. Nevertheless, the fact
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How Greek banks moved into a new era
Agora. The highest quarterly NPL increase was posted by Eurobank, which saw a rise of 1.5 percentage... increase, Piraeus shares saw a modest increase of 6 percent, while Eurobank and National shares have
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Greece's biggest problem? Society's lack of openness
Agorabeen cited as being central to its malaise. Conservatives saw in the country a textbook case... of the private sector. Some analyses went a little deeper and saw clientelism as the core pathology, an acid
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Newsletter 7 - 12/12/2014
2012. September also saw the highest reading for the month-on-month rise in the number of employed... demanded by the troika. Cool heads did not prevail in New Democracy either. Samaras saw his party
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Divided we fall?
AgoraAntonis Samaras became the arch-proponent of the anti-memorandum line, feeding the populism that saw... fed antagonism. Samaras's New Democracy cultivated the "theory of the two extremes," which saw
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