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SYRIZA's bid to force elections by early 2015 will be a close-run thing
PoliticsGreek Politicsand that the leftists will have to block the coalition’s effort to elect a new president, thereby triggering... candidate. This would be enough to block the nominee in the first two rounds of voting
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Tsipras forges ahead with referendum as lenders hold back, wait for result
PoliticsGreek Politicsthing that could block it is if the Council of State rules it unconstitutional. Greece’s highest..., while pledging not to block it in Parliament. The other option is for elections to be called
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Mounting pension protests exert more pressure on coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicson the Athens-Thessaloniki national road on Wednesday. They have threatened to block traffic.... This means that the intensity of their protest and determination to block the government’s plans
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Coalition seeks to quash concerns about complications with Hellenikon development
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat its proposal will not block the project but only requires the developer to get approval for any... to block the development project. The coalition is generally seen as having decent relationship with Lamda
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Tsipras eyes next step after mixed Eurogroup deal
PoliticsGreek Politicsto present a much more hopeful picture in the months ahead. One potential stumbling block in the immediate... the Eurogroup would block any disbursement to Greece if the Athens does not grant immunity
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Greece and Albania hold private talks to tackle longstanding differences
PoliticsForeign Policyresearch in block 1 in the Ionian Sea. Tirana is also asking Greece to terminate the formal state... in Bucharest, when NATO leaders took a unanimous decision to block FYROM’s accession. Athens is aware
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Cyprus EEZ keeps Greek-Turkish relations on edge
PoliticsForeign Policyby Italian energy company's ENI to Block 3 is still blocked by Turkish warships. Even though the Greek... even though Block 3 is not one of those being challenged by Turkey. This move may for the drillship
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Mitsotakis responds to Tsipras challenge with proposals for broad changes to constitution
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis made it clear on Tuesday that his party intends to block the government’s efforts to revise Greece’s constitution if Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras limits... in the next Parliament, the conservatives will be in a position where they can block the changes put
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Skopje moves ahead with name deal ratification as Athens watches closely
Foreign PolicyGreek Politicsthat Greece might not block Skopje’s efforts even if the agreement is not ratified by the Greek... to impose a 100 percent tax increase on Serbian products in response to the latter's efforts to block
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Deal or no deal? Greece wrestles with the Macedonia issue
AgoraGreece in The Hague in 2011, it has been made clear that Athens cannot block this process again... to block the procedure. Greece would find itself in a surreal and lonely position within
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