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Mitsotakis breaks the ice in Sochi but Russia's wariness remains
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Russian President Vladimir Putin held constructive talks... and that Kyriakos Mitsotakis was the first European leader to hold talks with Putin during difficult times... Antony Blinken. During the joint press conference of Mitsotakis and Putin, the former noted
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Athens watches Turkey-Russia rapprochement with interest
PoliticsForeign PolicyPresident Vladimir Putin said in Moscow that their “common target” is to resolve the crisis in Syria... that the Erdogan–Putin rapprochement is an attempt by the Turkish president to demonstrate that Moscow could... with the aim of finding a compromise. But the return of the death penalty would obviously hurt EU-Turkish
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As SYRIZA looks towards centre, will New Democracy turn to its right?
PoliticsGreek Politicsto address the rise of the far right. Neofascist Golden Dawn and ultranationalist LAOS improved... Dawn and LAOS. “We already have to our right 16.5 percent of the electorate waiting for us... to have a realistic chance of winning the next general elections and being able to form a government
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Why Greece’s ‘also ran’ parties are crucial
Agora. While some of these parties are familiar, like the far-right LAOS party that was in parliament until... LAOS, and Democratic Left, all of which are not expected to make it into parliament. If the “also... by these small parties totals 5 percent, for example, the winning party would need 38.4 percent to take
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What brought down Golden Dawn?
Societyquick to link the party’s emergence with the disintegration of LAOS, the far-right party that had... came from LAOS, while 4 in 10 came from New Democracy and 2 in 10 from PASOK. Even... one MEP, who resigned from the party within weeks of winning his seat. The party’s performance
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Newsletter 461 - 09/05/2025
by Zoe Konstantopoulou, saw its support shoot up during February and March, reaching 13.4 pct... saw their backing dip from 12.8 pct to 12.4 pct. Although the gap between the two parties is slight... asked whether they saw the next general elections as an opportunity to cast a protest vote, 77 pct
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Newsletter 90 - 30/09/2016
is constitutional. Bank deposits edge up From outflows of 153 million euros in July, Greek deposits saw... and its president, Vladimir Putin, than is normal in Europe. This is largely down to the Christian
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What could Trump's victory mean for Greece?
AgoraPresident Vladimir Putin, and a reluctance to have the US footing the bill for defence operations... in all these countries. As we saw in Britain, an election result can be enough to allow latent anger
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Newsletter 170 -13/07/2018
Tsipras’s government this week as it expelled Russian diplomats and saw the disbursement... and the USA are stronger than they have been for decades. AlexisTsipras’s welcome of Vladimir Putin seems
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Much riding on EU approval of plan to cap energy prices
PoliticsGreek Politicspublished by ELSTAT on Tuesday, which saw the CPI figure for April rise by 10.2 pct year-on-year... the shipowners “get rich transporting Putin’s oil, the proceeds of which are used to strengthen the armoury
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