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With onerous measures looming, Tsipras seeks talks with opposition leaders
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras took the unusual step of requesting a meeting of party leaders on Thursday, which comes a few days after he appealed for a minimum level of consensus between the government... with his comments when he met Pavlopoulos last Friday, a few hours after he lost two MPs
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New Democracy latches on to SYRIZA confusion over law and order
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat it is in the unusual role of having to act against the kind of activism it encouraged while in opposition.... Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis met this week with Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis, who has
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Newsletter 89 - 23/09/2016
appeared to have the government’s backing, to be changed. The Bank of Greece governor met... not just affect the government, given that the lender’s unusual practices seem to have been in place
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Newsletter 91 - 07/10/2016
, the prime minister met with the heads of the country’s top courts at his office on Thursday... in circumstances that were deemed unusual. If the country’s highest administrative court deems the tender
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New attempt to get Cyprus talks back on track
PoliticsForeign Policyand took the opportunity to hold a series of meetings to discuss the Cyprus issue. He met, among others... to the negotiating table," he added. It is unusual, however, that the Cyprus issue was not discussed
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Will centre-left let go of past to grasp change?
Agora, the effort to set up this unusual vote has been dogged by problems. The traditional bastion... by technical problems, which meant the original date for the vote could not be met, arguments over whether
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Erdogan makes forceful start to visit, catches Athens off guard
PoliticsForeign PolicyPavlopoulos, who hosted Erdogan in Athens before the Turkish president met with Prime Minister Alexis.... The Turkish president is due to visit Thrace on Friday for the first time since 2005. The unusual
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Lenders wait for prior actions to be completed, Athens expects 4.5-bln tranche
EconomyProgrammeMembers of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG) are due to meet again next week, after Greece has completed its prior actions, to finalise their recommendation to eurozone finance ministers. The EWG met... speculation. The Greek Finance Ministry took the unusual step on Thursday of responding to reports
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Tsipras tries to secure church's support in Macedonia name talks
PoliticsGreek Politicsmet for UN-mediated talks this week after several weeks of relatively positive noises from the two... Ieronymos to defuse the crisis. The prime minister also took the unusual step of going to see the head
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Newsletter 156 -23/03/2018
who write scenarios.” Despite the reservations in both camps about their unusual cooperation... will be released once the institutions are satisfied that Greece has met their expectations regarding
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