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Megafire surges into Athens suburbs, posing major challenge for PM
PoliticsGreek Politicsof around 30 km and burning an estimated 10,000 hectares (100 million square metres of land... northern suburbs, such as Halandri and Vrilissia, destroying or damaging apartment blocks as well..., attempting to prevent the fire reaching their apartment buildings, and firefighters being aided
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Newsletter 210 -07/06/2019
and Greek Solution 2.5. Eurozone postpones fiscal issues until Sept Apartment prices show increase in Q1..., apartment prices rose by 1.7 percent, picking up against the rise of 0.8 percent between Q3 and Q4..., Labour Minister Efi Achtsioglou, Administrative Reform Minister Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou and Interior
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Initials signs for Greek-Turkish exploratory talks seem unpromising
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe new round of exploratory talks between Greece and Turkey hang in the balance as Ankara has resumed what Athens deems to be aggressive rhetoric. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called... against anyone. It is an effort towards multilateral cooperation, open to all countries
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Release of refugees creates new difficulties for minister
PoliticsGreek Politicson the streets. Recent events, which included up to 800 migrants reportedly gathering in Victoria Square... of the new scheme. He claimed the overcrowding in Victoria Square was the result of “someone telling them... Square to the Elaionas centre in Athens early this week. The developments sparked fresh criticism
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New political clash over police violence, but ND seems unperturbed
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSmyrni square. Another woman claimed the police used aggressive behaviour and language against her even though she was in the square with her two young children and they were all wearing masks... Interior Minister Makis Voridis, alleged that the man in question was known to the police, had
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Newsletter 417 - 22/03/2024
by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country's data protection authority, while several... the upcoming European Parliament elections, and the resignations of a senior Interior Ministry official... that the email list was leaked from the Interior Ministry during the tenure of the caretaker government
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Another spin of the wheel for Greece
Agorain Athens’s Syntagma Square. It was the first year the city centre’s Christmas and New Year’s... of uncertainty in the Greek crisis. Perhaps they should have kept the Ferris Wheel at Syntagma Square after all... in the pods being removed from the Ferris Wheel before anyone could step into them is very much
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Government fears losing momentum to new Tempe backlash as GSI tensions rise
PoliticsGreek Politicsby Panos Ruci, the father of one of the victims of the 2023 Tempe crash. Ruci is about to enter... be carried out to establish the exact cause of death. Thousands of people have visited Ruci’s camp... government officials have suggested that Ruci is being used by the lawyers’ representing the victims
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Tempe postmortem decision opens up government and judiciary to criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicsafter the father of one of the victims, Panos Ruci, went on hunger strike by the cenotaph outside..., who is representing the Ruci family in her capacity as a lawyer. He also attacked the doctor who monitored Ruci, accusing her of being motivated by leftist politics. More moderate government figures
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Apartment prices rise in Q2 by a strong 13.9 pct YoY despite slight slowdown
EconomyMacroeconomyThe growth in the nominal value of apartments in Greece remained on a stolid path in Q2 2023, increasing by 13.9 percent year-on-year (YoY) from an upwards revised 15 percent in Q1 2023, Bank... that almost reached as much as -13 percent at the end of 2012. Old apartments - those over five years
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