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Athens takes stock after PM's first talks with Erdogan, Balkan leaders
PoliticsForeign PolicyKoumoutsakos will visit Ankara to meet with Turkey’s Interior Minister, Suleyman Soylu as well... the issue of the ethnic Greek minority as leverage to convince Tirana to address some of the problems
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Confusion over retail reopening puts govt on defensive
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the ongoing restrictions. Deputy Interior Minister Stelios Petsas received a frosty reception during... handling of the pandemic and the array of problems it has created. This significant erosion of faith in ND
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PM removes under-fire ministers from posts in late-summer reshuffle
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKikilias. Chrysochoidis is replaced by former Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos, who was removed... into immediate problems. The changes were announced on Tuesday morning after the prospect of a reshuffle
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PM makes limited, cautious changes to cabinet after election disappointment
PoliticsGreek Politicsat ministerial level in five departments: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural... as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras, once a justice minister under Mitsotakis, becomes the new agriculture minister. Niki Kerameus is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry
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Our cruel summer
Agorasaid in radio communication with other crew members aired on Greek TV. “I thought he was black...” or “Pakistani” to be used liberally as a catch-all description for anyone deemed to be inferior or dispensable
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Greeks consider antisemitism a minor issue despite recent attacks
Societythis form of discrimination is not a major problem despite a recent wake of such attacks... found that in Greece, the majority of the survey’s respondents felt that antisemitism is not a problem in Greece. The majority (37 percent) said that antisemitism was not a problem at all in Greece
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Greek government risks mauling after straying off
Agoraof victory but it appears to have outdone itself with the emerging fiasco that is the TV licencing procedure... with a permit. While the opposition parties sense an opportunity, the machinations over the TV permit tender have left the Greek public smelling a rat. According to an MRB poll for Star TV (one of the channels
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Moody's explains why it sees SYRIZA win as credit negative
Economyagency stresses that the negotiations with the troika will take place within this backdrop... particularly against the backdrop of looming repayments on T-Bills, to the ECB (bond redemptions) and the IMF
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New migration law passes amid questions over Chios tragedy
PoliticsGreek Politicsparliamentary debate and subsequent vote took place against the backdrop of a new deadly incident involving... Democracy of flirting with the far right. These exchanges were in keeping with the political backdrop
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Energy drives closer cooperation between Greece, Cyprus and Egypt
PoliticsForeign Policyprocess on the Syrian crisis, while also expressing “serious concerns over the situation in Libya.” The instability in Libya and the presence of jihadists there was highlight by the Egyptian president
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