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Greeks lose faith in coalition but don't trust SYRIZA, polls indicate
PoliticsGreek Politicsits inability to convince voters that it can run the country competently. A Rass poll... percent (up 4.5 pp). The Rass survey shows a similar trend, with support for SYRIZA rising 0.7... in the Rass poll think a leftist victory is certain) but the closing of the gap would create
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Comfortable lead allows Mitsotakis to play it safe as Tsipras makes last-ditch attempt
PoliticsGreek Politicsto prevent it gaining an outright majority in Greek Parliament on Sunday. A survey by Rass published.... According to Rass, support for ND stands at 35.4 percent against 26.2 percent for SYRIZA, with 6.6 percent still undecided. Rass sees six parties making it into Parliament, which Yanis Varoufakis’s
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Newsletter 80 - 01/07/2016
, Sarah Vine, told the former education minister the morning after the referendum. She used a famous
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Fool Britannia
Agoralies and stoking hate. “You were only meant to blow the bloody doors off,” Michael Gove’s wife, Sarah
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Study highlights overregulation and bad law-making in recent years
Societyyear period. The report argues that Greece suffers extensively from the dual problem of overregulation... with grammatical errors, bad Greek or the blatant misuse of legal terminology. Overregulation, a feature
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Greek relief at EU-Turkey refugee deal but heavy lifting lies ahead
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared himself satisfied with the outcome of Friday’s EU-Turkey summit on refugees and said its content, particularly the references to the accession chapters that will open for Ankara, represented a diplomatic vict...
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Tsipras faces heavy lifting to finalise deal and get party approval
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek government has wasted no time in rolling out its strategy for ensuring the passage of measures being discussed with the lenders and the conclusion of the drawn-out second review. Government spokesman Dimitris Tzanakopoulos and Digital Policy M...
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Tsipras bids to maintain unity after heavy defeat for SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy is on course for a victory over SYRIZA of around 9.5 points, one of the biggest in the history of the European Parliament vote and a result that puts immense pressure on Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA ahead of snap general electi...
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Podcast - The heavy arm of the law: Police brutality in Greece
AgoraThe behaviour of the Greek police has come under scrutiny, again, following a number of incidents over which officers have been accused of using unnecessary and excessive force. In this episode, we take a look at why police tactics have triggered public...
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Tempe casts heavy shadow over public mood as accident report confirms serious safety failings
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOn the eve of planned demonstrations to mark the second anniversary of the Tempe rail accident, more polls capture widespread public discontent with the authorities’ handling of the crash, further chipping away at support for mainstream political partie...
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