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Newsletter 318 - 26/11/2021
than 1 in 5 respondents saw a significant benefit from the government’s energy support package... campaigns that saw a variety of Greek media outlets receive more than 40 million euros in total... years and the average funding cost stood at 0.31 pct.MacroeconomyCharts of the weekBudget The Finance
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Internal and external difficulties with measures expose coalition's weaknesses
PoliticsGreek Politicssigns of tension between the coalition partners emerged last week. Independent Greeks (ANEL) refused... through Parliament. Also, ANEL leader and Defence Minister publicly criticised Education Minister..., particularly as the upcoming leadership election in New Democracy may leave the ANEL president
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Vote on same-sex civil unions reveals common ground and divisions
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL), including leader Panos Kammenos, did not vote for the law. PASOK, To Potami, the Union... within the government. ANEL has cultivated its image on being socially conservative and close..., there was a positive surprise in three ANEL lawmakers breaking with their party line and voting in favour
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Kammenos's odd partnership with Tsipras still holding together
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) over the weekend, while also managing to highlight the odd nature of the cooperation... disciplinary measures. The ANEL leader has become indispensable to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras thanks to his... both in his awarding of government positions to ANEL MPs (five of the nine lawmakers received
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Athens hopes for sub-tranche this week, ND keeps up pressure on Kammenos
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks (ANEL) leader Panos Kammenos. Mitsotakis pursues Kammenos Conservative leader Kyriakos... defended the ANEL leader for speaking to one of the men convicted in the case. The prime minister... and the right-wing nationalists of ANEL. There was an example of this discomfort on Wednesday, when
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Coalition's ideological contrasts highlighted but Kammenos quashes rift talk
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDefence Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL... from Archbishop Ieronymos and ANEL leader Kammenos, who maintains very close ties with the church.... It was pointed out that an ANEL MP, Dimitris Kammenos, last week voted against the provision
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Newsletter 156 -23/03/2018
office to insist, as he has done before, that SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) will remain together “until the end.” The ANEL leader dismissed the claims of a rift, saying it was the work of “those...-left, the prospect of any party jumping into government with SYRIZA if ANEL decides it has had enough
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Fallout from Macedonia name deal sparks turmoil for coalition and opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics(ANEL). Apart from trying to isolate Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and SYRIZA, New Democracy is also trying to put ANEL in a difficult position by having to justify why their MPs will vote... to the government by forcing some ANEL MPs not to back the coalition in the no-confidence vote. The move by New
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No let-up in intensity of SYRIZA-New Democracy clash over name settlement
PoliticsGreek Politicsif they come to power. ANEL Junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) continues... also resigned from the party on Monday. Their complaint was that ANEL leader and Defence Minister... is against the name deal with Skopje. Contact between the outgoing ANEL MP, now an independent lawmaker
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Tsipras seeks assurances that coalition will remain united for time being
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter days of mounting tension between SYRIZA and its coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL... the right to ask for a no-confidence vote in Greek Parliament from mid-December onwards. An ANEL... but would not back the government in a no-confidence vote. ANEL MP Thanasis Papachristopoulos
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