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Mitsotakis targets reforms, but day-to-day challenges set to dominate agenda in 2024
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHaving reaffirmed his government’s commitment to reforming and modernising Greece in his New Year message, the pressure is on Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to show that New Democracy can deliver on this pledge during 2024 and maintain the political...
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Close to 32 mln visitors by Nov as 11-month travel receipts set record
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s travel balance recorded a surplus of 206.2 million euros in November, from 1.5 billion euros in October, according to Bank of Greece (BoG) data released on Monday. November’s balance was 3.9 percent higher than the 198.5 million euros registere...
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PASOK candidates set out their stalls as SYRIZA sinks further into mire
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe six candidates vying for the leadership of centre-left PASOK put their cases to the party’s central committee over the weekend as the first round of voting on October 6 approaches. Opinion polls, which pollsters are very guarded about because of the...
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Housing costs, food prices set limits to impact of tax cuts
EconomyThe Greek government’s efforts to shift the narrative and change its political fortunes are crashing against the realities on the ground as reflected in the frequent data releases from Eurostat and ELSTAT. Months of communications build-up around the Th...
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Prior actions, pending actions and milestones along the bumpy road
Agorawho are prepared to invest political capital and mobilise the administrative capacity to engage..., but time is a luxury. The second SYRIZA-led government will have to engage in repair work on its
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Greek-Turkish rift puts strain on Cyprus reunification talks
PoliticsForeign Policythat Athens and Ankara are not likely to engage in a constructive dialogue over security and guarantees... on Cyprus, Espen Barth Eide has already begun to engage in talks with Athens and Ankara in an effort to lay
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Erdogan makes forceful start to visit, catches Athens off guard
PoliticsForeign Policycompounded the feeling that the Greek government would have preferred Pavlopoulos not to engage... on stronger bilateral ties to engage with Ankara. However, the start to Erdogan’s trip suggests
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EU Council sidesteps sanctions, puts focus on constructive Greek-Turkish talks
PoliticsGreek Politics, and calls on Turkey to accept the invitation by Cyprus to engage in dialogue with the objective... and Cypriot courts, calling for Athens to engage with Ankara in exploratory talks over the delimitation
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Turkish missile test adds to complexity of defence assessment in Athens
PoliticsForeign Policya sympathetic ear to these invitations. It prefers to engage in unlawful conduct. I want to make... not lend a sympathetic ear to these invitations. It prefers to engage in unlawful conduct.” Dendias
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Greek-Turkish enmity to continue as polls loom, sea borders come into play
PoliticsForeign Policyto engage in aggressive rhetoric, while Athens seems unable to restore communication channels with Ankara. In reality, neither of the two sides is ready or willing to engage in genuine efforts to begin
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