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Tussle over arms deal sets tone for polarised politics
PoliticsGreek Politicswas to be paid to the middleman) meant that the opposition parties were not able to put the defence..., it appears that this issue has not been put to bed. On Tuesday morning, New Democracy asked for all those... could put pressure on Kammenos and Tsipras, who gave his full support to his minister on Monday
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In the absence of light, darkness grows
Agoraset by a group of people that are delusional cannot pass as serious political analysis. To make... Democracy, which lost more than 525,000 votes since June 2012? Even if we were to set all this aside... be understandable as part of an effort to put a positive spin on the outcome of the May 25 ballot
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Newsletter 6 - 5/12/2014
, is for the same dilemma (troika deal or fresh negotiations under a new government) to be put to Greek voters... presidential candidate put forward by the conservative government in early 2010. This resistance..., Tsipras runs a similar risk of finding himself trying to disentangle a complex set of parameters
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Greece makes new proposals in search for deal acceptable to lenders and MPs
PoliticsGreek Politicsoffer would still be short of the target of 1 percent put forward by lenders last week. For 2016... was put forward in recent months. ESM scheme With payments to the European Central Bank... Greece to qualify for the QE as the country threshold set by the ECB will no longer apply in this case
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Tsipras in tight spot over debt deal but QE access may hold key to compromise
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDimitris Tzanakopoulos said Athens aims to get a “comprehensive agreement and to put an end... week but which would also secure access to QE. The proposal put to the Greek finance minister... and little else to show for having voted through Parliament a highly unpopular set of measures
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Tsipras tries to resolve trash row as opposition goes on offensive
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government looks set to overcome one of the domestic problems that has been troubling it over... the meeting, the prime minister set out the government’s ideas for ending the dispute. This was based... be put into question. Mitsotakis In the meantime, though, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis
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Govt ratchets up coronavirus measures, while planning further support for economy
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece is introducing tighter measures to discourage social gatherings, in an effort to put a stop... to 200,000 employees could be impacted by the closures, and has set aside 100 million euros in benefits... of the coronavirus. Early government estimates put the total cost of the measures planned by Greece at 2 billion
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Amid Eurogroup stalemate, Athens focusses on extra liquidity available after ECB move
EconomyTuesday’s Eurogroup teleconference ended in disagreement and is set to be repeated on Thursday... programme, especially if it will only deliver limited funds. Another element to the package being put... to struggling businesses if member states put up 25 billion euros. The other issue under discussion
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Rise of smaller parties a barrier to decisive result in first elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the May 21 elections, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is due to set out his policy agenda on Wednesday.... Hatziliadis is reportedly an instructor at Greece’s army cadet school. Pulse has also put forward several... this is unlikely to be enough for SYRIZA and PASOK based on these scenarios put together by Pulse
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Newsletter 398 - 20/10/2023
that this sense of malaise does not set in as it will put his government on the back foot, perhaps... was soundly beaten by Dimitris Kouretas, a candidate put forward by centre-left PASOK and supported by main... within its own ranks. Despite the defiant spin put on the results, the outcome was a chastening one
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