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Lockdown set to be extended as political friction continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is set to play it safe and extend Covid-19 restrictions on the advice of experts as Greece battles to keep the pandemic at bay after the festive period. Kathimerini reported on Friday that the authorities are set to extend the latest, stricter lockdown for another week
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New Parliament set for fractious opening session after Mitsotakis curtain-raiser
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe parties in Greece’s newly elected Parliament will have the opportunity to set out their agendas in the opening debate starting on Thursday, ahead of the vote of confidence scheduled for Saturday.... A series of announcements are expected along the lines of the programme set out in New Democracy’s
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PM set to avoid kneejerk reaction to poor EP poll result as centre left mulls next move
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the vote, which was well short of the target the PM had set, at around 33 pct. He told Alpha TV... the target he had set. He argued that the party had connected with some groups of voters during the campaign
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Kasselakis set to be excluded from SYRIZA leadership bid after row over assets
PoliticsGreek PoliticsStefanos Kasselakis’s bid to win back the leadership of SYRIZA looks set to be stymied by his opponents via the party organs in the latest twist in the drama that has consumed the main opposition party over recent months. A row over the ousted leader’s personal wealth set in motion the process
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Government pledges more reforms, but economy set to prove deciding factor in 2025
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Parapolitika weekly over the weekend, State Minister Akis Skertsos set out the government’s key aims..., will be the key to shaping the government’s fortunes on what is set to be a crucial year
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Dispute with farmers set to escalate as government offer rejected by holdouts
PoliticsGreek Politics, and are set to vote on Wednesday on a motion to take their protest to Athens. Mitsotakis is still... Minister Kostas Tsiaras are set to meet farmers in central Macedonia to discuss issues relating
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Greece and Turkey go into new round of exploratory talks with trust at a premium
PoliticsForeign PolicyAfter months of bilateral tension over maritime borders and gas exploration rights, Turkish and Greek diplomats are scheduled to resume in Istanbul this Monday, January 25, the exploratory talks long-standing territorial disputes in the Aegean between t...
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Spain’s economic recovery languishes amid graft scandals
Agora, January’s three-year bond yield falling to a record-low and a declining risk premium that has... by 2015. Brussels set a 3-percent deficit target for 2016. Meanwhile, the debt will be climbing above
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Tsipras focuses on debt relief goal as review resumes in Athens
PoliticsGreek Politicsassets. He highlighted the fact that the bid accepted for OLTH represented a premium of nearly 70...). Athens is set to respond with its own observations to the documents, which are expected to form
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Grand projects and even loftier ambitions drive Greece's energy project bonanza
EconomyFeatures2017, the Greek gas utility DEPA tripled (albeit at a premium) its orders of LNG shipments to meet... and the commissioning date is set for 2020. A further point of entry into Greek gas grid is the northern port
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