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New Parliament set for fractious opening session after Mitsotakis curtain-raiser
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe parties in Greece’s newly elected Parliament will have the opportunity to set out their agendas in the opening debate starting on Thursday, ahead of the vote of confidence scheduled for Saturday.... A series of announcements are expected along the lines of the programme set out in New Democracy’s
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PM set to avoid kneejerk reaction to poor EP poll result as centre left mulls next move
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the vote, which was well short of the target the PM had set, at around 33 pct. He told Alpha TV... the target he had set. He argued that the party had connected with some groups of voters during the campaign
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Kasselakis set to be excluded from SYRIZA leadership bid after row over assets
PoliticsGreek PoliticsStefanos Kasselakis’s bid to win back the leadership of SYRIZA looks set to be stymied by his opponents via the party organs in the latest twist in the drama that has consumed the main opposition party over recent months. A row over the ousted leader’s personal wealth set in motion the process
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Government pledges more reforms, but economy set to prove deciding factor in 2025
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Parapolitika weekly over the weekend, State Minister Akis Skertsos set out the government’s key aims..., will be the key to shaping the government’s fortunes on what is set to be a crucial year
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Dispute with farmers set to escalate as government offer rejected by holdouts
PoliticsGreek Politics, and are set to vote on Wednesday on a motion to take their protest to Athens. Mitsotakis is still... Minister Kostas Tsiaras are set to meet farmers in central Macedonia to discuss issues relating
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Name and shame
Agoracontribution to Greek politics was to host Alexis Tsipras in 2014, when he set out SYRIZA’s plan for governing... that it is the northern city’s fate to be the gathering point for politicians and citizens with unrealistic.... But it paled next to the 1 million or so who gathered in Greece’s second largest city in 1992
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Athens encouraged by agreement on EU's Strategic Compass
PoliticsForeign Policy, annual defence spending exceeds 2 pct of national GDP, a goal that is set out in the Compass... and the total destruction of the city by Russian troops.” He also said that “Chechen troops have arrived from the Russian side and the city has been completely destroyed. The Greek government has a special
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agorapublishers, William Randolph Hearst, who also owned newspapers in this city, said: “News is something... management team but instead got a set of politicians that flew even closer to the burning sun. 2004... witnessing fascists attacking migrants and other minorities in city streets with the police either
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SYRIZA sees opportunity in tepid response to govt initiatives, PM's cosseting of right wing
PoliticsGreek Politics. Tsipras will take to the podium in the northern port city a week after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set out a package of 3.5 billion euros in fiscal measures – some already in effect, but many..., aimed at winning over voters. According to reports, SYRIZA’s economic proposals are set to include
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Are Independent Greeks and SYRIZA set to become odd bedfellows?
PoliticsGreek PoliticsCould what once seemed impossible be about to happen? Are we set to see SYRIZA and the Independent Greeks, two parties on opposite sides of the political spectrum, agree an official cooperation? Speculation about the left- and right-wing parties joining forces has intensified after Independent
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