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Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016
the debate on pension reform held in Parliament among political party leaders on Tuesday, Prime Minister.... The debate about excluding Greece from Schengen is equally absurd, especially as it does not have... islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other parts of Europe. On this subject, a lot
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Greek pensions: The unsolvable equation
Agoracontention in Greece and always a politically charged subject in the Greek public debate. The costs... in the debate around Greece’s pension reform. However, one should be cautious when using spending... took a major hit not only as a result of people dropping out the labour force en masse but also due
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New Democracy sticks by snap polls call as gov't looks to probe, tender for relief
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing Tuesday night’s tempestuous debate in Parliament, New Democracy stole a march on an apparently unprepared government by tabling on Wednesday a proposal for a parliamentary committee... of the central themes of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s speech on Tuesday but after the debate he
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Newsletter 68 - 01/04/2016
Mitsotakis threw down the gauntlet during a bitter parliamentary debate on Tuesday about the justice... is safeguarded. It is an argument that would make for an interesting debate. What is less open to discussion
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Coalition under fire over multi-bill but aiming to stay united for vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsand by article) on Friday. The debate in the full assembly is due to begin on Saturday morning before... lawmakers that spoke during the committee debate or appeared before the local media
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Brexit and Grexit – Britain’s referendum and Greece
AgoraGreece is at the heart of the Brexit debate currently tearing Britain apart. There is open civil war in Europe’s longest-existing political party, the Conservatives, with nearly three centuries.... Turkey has loomed large in the UK referendum debate. The Brexit camp has said that 75 million Turks
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Newsletter 84 - 29/07/2016
of the second review Now that the debate over Greece’s electoral system has been settled (for the time being... by the government in Turkey following the failed coup. No, the political debate in Greece is much too
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Athens looks to Draghi for positive signals on debt relief
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIt was mentioned almost as an afterthought. Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank President, reframed the ongoing debate on Greek debt relief, noting the ECB would draw its own conclusions... to avoid the debt debate being caught up in European election campaigning, with polls due
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Newsletter 96 - 18/11/2016
in intervening in this debate. Before Obama had even touched down in Berlin, Schaeuble let it be known... provided a welcome dose of realpolitik in a debate where there is a risk of focusing exclusively
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Presidential shuttle diplomacy between Athens and Berlin
Agora. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble lost no time in intervening in this debate. Before Obama had... in a debate where there is a risk of focusing exclusively on debt-relief measures. The provision
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