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Mitsotakis win sends ripples through other opposition parties
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMitsotakis’s effort. Grigorakos, who is close to former PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos, has been critical..., he said he could “not rule anything out.” There has been much speculation about whether Mitsotakis’s... of Greece’s centre-left. Until now, Potami has maintained a largely neutral stance on the left/right
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PASOK and Potami divided over direction to take after Mitsotakis win
PoliticsGreek Politicstogether. The idea of such an alliance has gained greater urgency not just because of Mitsotakis’s win... lacklustre performance in the September election. Theodorakis has called for a party congress at the end... pro-European and reformist force in Greek politics. Potami has so far refrained from discussing
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SYRIZA under fire for TV permit tender, tinkering with watchdog
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has come in for criticism again from the opposition parties for allegedly trying.... The dispute over the TV licenses has been brewing for some time as the opposition suspects SYRIZA is trying... attempted to highlight that the government has a shady motive for tabling the amendment by challenging
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Mapping the views of the Greeks
Societythat stands out for its culture and has much to offer the modern world. Indeed, most Greeks believe Greece has offered more to the EU than it has received from it, which the authors believe indirectly implies... of farmers believe that the EU has benefited more from Greece in terms of economics. On the other hand
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Sensing opportunity, Golden Dawn rears its head again
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s sovereign rights. There has been criticism of both developments and Golden Dawn perhaps... has interrupted the case. The party has not made any great inroads in recent opinion polls but has
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Investment: The forgotten casualty of the Greek crisis
Agorathe depression that engulfed the economy has been investment, or lack thereof. At its peak in 2007... investment spending. The depression that the economy has experienced since has altered both the composition and the scale of investments. Housing has effectively evaporated, totaling only 1.8 billion euros
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Under pressure to justify existence, To Potami goes to congress
PoliticsGreek Politicswhen it drew just 4 percent of the vote, has recently been jolted into action by the election... in opinion polls since Mitsotakis’s unexpected victory has been poor. As a result of this downward slide, its...’s MPs, former general secretary for public revenues Haris Theoharis has indicated an interest
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As Greek leaders mull position on refugee crisis, EC sets out timetable of targets
PoliticsForeign Policypressure and to restore order to the management of migration. In the case of Greece, it has also become... the pressure on Greece to abandon the “wave-through” approach and set out the timeline it has to follow over... within days after the visit. 12 May 2016: at the latest by this date, Greece has to report
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PASOK leader seeks alliances to improve party's footing
PoliticsGreek Politicsadministration. Venizelos, who has opposed Gennimata over a number of issues, indicated... of working together to form a new government. The ex-PASOK leader has been consistently critical of the SYRIZA-led coalition and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and has been critical of Gennimata’s more
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Greece and lenders seen making progress on privatisation fund but not on NPLs
EconomyProgrammeissues of fiscal and tax measures as well as pension reform, progress has been reportedly made... convergence, yet there is significant gap between the two sides. He also said that an agreement has been reached on the taxation of NPL management companies and loan write-offs. The government has proposed
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