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Newsletter 79 - 24/06/2016
more rapturous response from TV audiences during political debates over the last few months... bloody turmoil and division, one can read the surname of a Soviet soldier who scratched it into the wall... this means anything to the teenagers who tour this old building, who have only seen war on TV
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Polls indicate PM’s tax-cut offer fails to move needle as voters remain pessimistic, concerned
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTwo more new opinion polls (Metron Analysis for Mega TV and MRB for Open TV) have indicated that although the tax cuts announced recently by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis have been welcomed... his big bazooka and that it has hardly made a dent in the wall of disappointment and disinterest
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US-China port spat gives Athens taste of diplomatic challenges ahead
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the US’s new ambassador to Athens Kimberly Guilfoyle in a TV interview. The embassy’s representative..., contributing to the port’s further development. Speaking to Ant-1 TV last week, Guilfoyle had described COSCO’s... by a Wall Street Journal reporter in September, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis said his government would
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Tsipras faces lenders' wall in Brussels as political tension grows in Athens
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA new round of marathon talks are due to take place in Brussels on Thursday after a failure to reach an agreement on Wednesday. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras held two sets of talks totalling about six hours with European Commission president Jean-Claude...
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Are Chinese investments starting to hit a wall in Germany?
AgoraFor two successive years, China has been Germany’s most important trading partner. In 2017, the trade volume between both countries reached 186,6 billion euro. Germany’s second most important trading partner was The Netherlands with 177 billion euro, fo...
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
AgoraOver the last three years, you won’t have read a newspaper article, seen a TV report or listened to a radio program that referred to Greece and didn’t use the word “crisis.” And for good reason too... hit a brick wall. It lacked the conviction to make the tough changes in the public sector, to make
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Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
Agorawas blocked last year. On Friday, former Justice Minister Antonis Roupakiotis told Skai TV that Baltakos... claims against police be included in a new immigration code. A recent Wall Street Journal article
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Tsipras seeks tone of cooperation and persistence at Merkel talks
PoliticsGreek Politicsbetween Greece and Germany as it is leading to the promotion of stereotypes on both sides. As the Wall... the country’s lenders will react. Government spokesman Gavriil Sakellaridis told Mega TV on Tuesday
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The men who would be prime ministers
Agora, the year that the Berlin Wall fell. Since then, there have been 12 general elections... prime minister,” he told Skai TV. Greeks have paid dearly for the headstrong rush to power made by its
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Athens absorbs Eurogroup fallout, hopes for better offer
PoliticsGreek Politics. Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos insisted during a press briefing and an interview on Skai TV... have. The Wall Street Journal reported that the offer put to Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos
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