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Will the real men of unity please stand up?
AgoraAt first it seemed like a harmless joke. “And now for one member state, all the men need to take off their ties,” said European Commission first vice-president Frans Timmermans at the end of a recent... its online audiovisual service. Timmermans’s comments, though, are symptomatic of the breakdown
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Newsletter 37 - 31/07/2015
further pension reform, changes to taxation (including for farmers), product and service market... to the process is that Tsipras managed to hold off an attack from SYRIZA’s left wing, which wanted
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Tsipras confounds expectations, creates new doubts by reviving coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsof SYRIZA and Independent Greeks picking up where they had left off a few weeks ago. Tsipras wasted... in the day-to-day management of the civil service and ensuring it meets the levels of preparedness
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Tsipras and SYRIZA: More old than new
Agorasomething similar. Why can’t we say that the gamble paid off for Tsipras? Because to a lesser or greater... service to the high ideals of fairness and justice before someone else comes along promising what
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Internal and external difficulties with measures expose coalition's weaknesses
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the new target is to achieve an agreement that the Euro Working Group can sign off on by Friday. Whether... Minister Alexis Tsipras and the National Intelligence Service (KYP) were aware of the threats at the time
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Coalition opens up new political front with tender for TV licenses
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor New Democracy and PASOK to shake off the impression that they have been involved in corrupt exchanges... the civil service New Democracy and PASOK appointees and replace them with those close to SYRIZA
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Newsletter 65 - 04/03/2016
, investment and tourism, coupled with bigger fall in imports compared to that in exports. Eurobank kicked off... spending by 70 percent over the next three years to leave it in a position to service its debts, which
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The diversions of the past
Agorathe past years. And, ultimately, Greece has a police force and intelligence service that has... believes that if he refers to selfless acts of the past, their sheen will somehow rub off on him
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Greek tourism: Hopeful yet uncertain for 2016
EconomyFeaturestowards Greece. In contrast to last year, this year has got off to a somewhat jittery start for the sector... and food service sector in Q4 2015 fell by 8 percent compared to the same quarter in 2014, the lowest since
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Reshuffle speculation mounts as offshore law sparks new political row
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the Tsipras administration to overcome the impression that it is only paying lip service to its pledge... subject, especially as the government is hoping that it can tick off in the coming days the adjustments
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