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ND's electoral bill put before MPs as PM mulls options for president
PoliticsGreek Politicssaw the election winner awarded a 50-seat bonus, but a sliding scale that could lead to the victorious party earning up to 50 extra MPs. According to the proposal, if the winning party passes the 25... in May 2012 did the winning party win less than 25 percent of the vote, when New Democracy gained
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Newsletter 370 - 17/02/2023
pensioners whose retirement pay did not increase in January, or who saw minor rises, because... after the first ballot, seeking instead to battle it out in a second ballot, where the winning party... that SYRIZA will come second, behind ND. The winning party would need around 44 pct of the vote for a clear
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PASOK leadership ballot draws attention away from PM's deepening rift with predecessors
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the first round of voting, which saw PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis and Athens Mayor Haris Doukas qualify... first in nine regions and his challenger only winning one. Androulakis’s strongest performance... that if Doukas is to have any chance of winning this Sunday’s run-off vote against Androulakis, he
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Privatisation of power transmission firm ADMIE a key challenge among prior actions
EconomyProgrammeto find the union opposing the government’s action. This feeds into the second problem faced... and consortiums qualified to participate in the second phase, which involved the submission of binding offers
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Tsipras gives mixed message on expectations for crucial upcoming Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politicsmeasures to be set out now and would not accept a proposal that simply kicks the problem into the future... if the Eurogroup provides a legally-binding commitment to making the country’s debt sustainable in the future
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Erdogan visit leaves Athens with much to ponder, no visible signs of progress
PoliticsForeign Policya problem that needs to be addressed. They note that the Greek state should undertake bold initiatives... new, as talks on CBMs date back to 1988, when there was a binding agreement between the then-foreign
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Greek banks' NPL selloff gathers speed
EconomyBankingeffective NPE management “the most crucial legacy problem that banks now have to tackle”. He added... balance sheet, announced recently that it has signed a binding agreement with B2Holding group
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EastMed pipeline close to high-level agreement, but still a long way from becoming reality
EconomyFeaturesproblem besetting the pipeline. Since the discovery of major natural gas reserves in the Levantine... change mitigation remains strong, with the EU parliament recently voting for a legally binding target
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From the National Energy and Climate Plan to COP26: What has Greek climate policy learned?
Societyresults, and weak state capacity – always considered a problem in Greece – has slowed down... enough. The country’s first draft Climate Law will make policy targets binding under EU legislation
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Athens homing in on non-permanent seat at UNSC
PoliticsForeign Policyproblem within a UN framework. Diplomatic sources in Athens, though, stress that it would be a great... the most powerful UN institution as it can take legally binding decisions to impose sanctions
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