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Spotlight on far-right party that might upset election arithmetic
PoliticsGreek Politicsa puppet leader to bypass new election rules designed bar it from running. On Thursday...-minute amendment in an Interior Ministry bill prompted accusations that the government was trying
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Judicial row erupts over election legislation as poll points to ND recovery
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the Supreme Court to bar a party from taking part in the election if it is deemed that its genuine leaders... deeming who will be able to stand in the upcoming elections. Interior Minister Makis Voridis has
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Move to block far-right fuels conflict between ND and SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament passed on Tuesday the government’s amendment aimed mainly at giving the Supreme Court the right to bar far-right Ellines (Greeks) from participating in the upcoming elections, although... the integrity of the electoral process. New Democracy’s response, led by Interior Minister Makis Voridis
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PM tries to guide government to firmer ground as opposition also faces struggle
PoliticsGreek PoliticsVaroufakis, is on 2.9 pct. The poor performance of all the parties on the centre-left and left, bar.... Mitsotakis is due to visit the Interior Ministry on Monday, where Theodoros Livanios was installed
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Newsletter 125 -30/06/2017
in. Of course, the danger for the prime minister is that in making such an ambitious claim, he has... by referring the matter to a prosecutor, especially after the convict claimed his life was in danger..., recovering from a reading of 93.2 in May and representing a year-to-date deterioration of 1.1 points
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Newsletter 277 -11/12/2020
PM rebuffs Covid-19 criticism Mitsotakis defends govt stance but is forced to extend some measures until Jan After being forced to extend Covid-19 restrictions into January, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tried to defend this week his, and his gover...
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Are hirings in the public sector out of control?
EconomyFeatures. Announcing the new hiring plans, Interior Minister Panos Skourletis argued that the hirings would... permanent public sector staff and 15,000 contractors, at a cost of 600 million euros. These accusations... contractors. Their numbers have swelled from 3,413 in 2012 to 15,601 at the end of 2017. By far the largest
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Newsletter 27 - 22/05/2015
February. It had been rumoured Athens would ask for the ELA cap to be increased by 1.1 billion... decline. 2 Cyprus decouples from Greece Minimising danger of contagion must now be a scenario..., deposit flow dynamics and nonperforming loan formation. Minimising any danger of contagion must now
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Newsletter 497 - 06/03/2026
. The opposition sees danger in every step: mission creep, alliance overreach, economic vulnerability... in the danger zone, a situation that has become a national political issue. The market turmoil... in constant prices grew by 1.1 pct to 204.44 billion euros. Nominal GDP was up by 4.9 pct, reaching
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Parliament's bailout probe has potential to be politically toxic
PoliticsGreek Politics. There is a danger that the memorandum inquiry and the Georgiou probe will fuel populist... Pavlopoulos, who was interior minister in Karamanlis’s government and one of the former New Democracy’s
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