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Underlining stress on Greek society, suicide rate doubled in first years of economic crisis
Societywith the previous year, while the overall rate of people taking their own lives grew by 26.5 percent (from... of suicide. There was shock this summer when the government revealed that 16 policemen had taken their own
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Is New Democracy really trying to ease political tension?
PoliticsGreek Politicsdoubts about whether his own party, New Democracy, is heeding this advice. Samaras spoke... reluctant to criticise Golden Dawn because, by his own admission, he does not want to alienate
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For Stournaras, it's out of the frying pan and into the heating oil
PoliticsGreek Politicstax within his own ministry. Kathimerini reports that Alternate Finance Minister Christos... at a large table on his own trying to convince those around him that Greece is on the way to recovery. After
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Europe missed an opportunity on banking union
Agorahad hoped for. In short, each member state will be responsible for saving its own banks.... This means that member states will have to continue guaranteeing deposits on their own
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The complexities of regaining market access: Could Greece learn from Portugal?
Agorawas unwilling to lend to them. And they want to own their reform process, including how to finance... on its own how to plug any medium-term budget gap. But during the past three years the key policy
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Preparations for local elections expose SYRIZA weakness
PoliticsGreek Politicsunder attack from opposition parties. Even some of its own members expressed concern about Karypidis... that SYRIZA was hoping Karypidis would stand down on his own. Finally, a meeting of the political
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Greece, the troika and banks' capital needs: A step-by-step guide
EconomyProgramme. The first question arises from the BoG decision to unveil its own estimates on capital needs just a few... own estimates on banks’ capital needs, even without the IMF approval, on February 28 or early March.
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Another party arrives on Greece's increasingly diffuse political scene
PoliticsGreek Politicscongress on March 8. Greek-German liberal MEP Jorgo Chatzimarkakis also launched his own party, Hellenic... by figures on the centre-left is likely to stand on its own in the May 25 European Parliament
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EU vote highlights Greek center-left's urgent need for renewal
PoliticsGreek Politicson the future of his own party and the Greek centre left in general. Leaving aside the low expectations... Andreas Loverdos. He left the party in December 2012 and formed his own group, Pact for a New Greece
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In the absence of light, darkness grows
Agoraown MPs had claimed they would. It is worth remembering that these parliamentarians are the same... in France. Not a peep about Greece. But then why would he say something when Greece’s own leaders
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