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Personal responsibility and public healthcare: Greece on a wing and a prayer
Agora. This was underscored in a recent Wall Street Journal article on the different approaches to the virus in Italy... danger for the public and that they, like the priests, could go about their normal business. Proof
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ND confident in migration stance as polls point to decisive victory on June 25
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe extension of the Evros border wall and pushback in the Aegean, that is putting migrants’ lives at risk... and the debate will not take place before the June 25 vote. The only danger for ND is that the re-emergence
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Polls indicate PM’s tax-cut offer fails to move needle as voters remain pessimistic, concerned
PoliticsGreek Politics. The danger for New Democracy is that the feeling voters will be left with is that Mitsotakis has fired his big bazooka and that it has hardly made a dent in the wall of disappointment and disinterest
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Athens mulls next move after Ankara writes to UN over maritime boundaries
PoliticsForeign Policy. The second is based on the belief that such a move could put in danger the future... in Syria and with Libya. Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias tweeted on Sunday that “Greece, united
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Athens responds to Erdogan's accusations as Mitsotakis readies UN address
PoliticsForeign Policyslammed Athens for employing policies that put migrants’ lives in danger. "We see that Greece's... Turkey -Libya memorandum, the Turkish leadership has made specific choices that do not leave any room
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Unhappy voters struggle to find alternatives as PM faces fresh attack from veteran conservatives
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the neighbouring country and of picking the wrong faction to ally with in Libya. Karamanlis voiced... to persuade the EU of the danger posed by the neighbouring country. Although the two former prime ministers
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Newsletter 277 -11/12/2020
PM rebuffs Covid-19 criticism Mitsotakis defends govt stance but is forced to extend some measures until Jan After being forced to extend Covid-19 restrictions into January, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tried to defend this week his, and his gover...
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Troika inquiry: talk to the organ grinder, not the monkey
Agora: they did not plausibly have the future income streams to repay all of their debts. Creditors weren... its banks. The bailouts, even the belated Greek debt restructuring, weren’t about the debtor countries. They weren’t about an efficient or fair allocation of losses between debtors and creditors
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Committee of wise men proposes drastic changes to Greece's pension system
Economyin pension funds’ revenues ranged between 12 percent for the Seamen's Retirement Fund (NAT) up to 48.9... of IKA revenues up to 89 percent for OGA and 92 percent for NAT. At the same time, pension funds
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Athens expands survey area off Crete, signs MoU with Egypt
PoliticsForeign PolicyExclusive Economic Zone. In 2019, before signing its memorandum with Turkey, Libya reacted against...). This was calculated by moving its median line northwards. After the signing of the Turkey-Libya memorandum in 2019, new data was generated and Libya could argue that the entire area south of Crete
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