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Newsletter 500 - 27/03/2026
PoliticsPM takes steps to nurture poll lead as crises multiplyThe Mitsotakis government spent the week projecting control on two fronts - economic relief and national defence - even as the political... The cumulative effect of Tempe, Predatorgate and other scandals has been a steady erosion of trust
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Ministerial resignation adds to pressure on PM as Tsipras prepares for return to arena
PoliticsGreek Politicsinto a defensive posture at a moment when he is seeking to reassert control over the national agenda. Lazaridis... for progressive forces. His argument is twofold: that the government is mired in decay and institutional erosion
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsto stop the protesters prompted heavy criticism from opposition parties and commentators. New... of the incident, accusing SYRIZA of losing control of law and order. The law and order issue... and the release of inmates suffering from heavy disabilities, which would lead to Xeros exiting prison
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Newsletter 59 - 22/01/2016
reflects a similar decrease in manufacturing turnover. 2 A year of SYRIZA Greeks paid a heavy price... to influence events remained limited. Sadly, Greeks paid a very heavy price until SYRIZA came... it and wanting to influence or control as much of the media and private sector as it can. SYRIZA
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Greece takes first round against Covid-19 but fight continues
Agoraof these choices are already taking a heavy toll; others may or may not prove sustainable. The decision... will cost the Greek economy more than most, thanks to its heavy reliance on tourism, shipping... the national government’s control. By autumn, when experts predict a second wave of the pandemic
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A quarter-pounder democracy
Agorawas a moment for Greece’s police and judiciary to announce their return to active duty. The swiftness... collection, for instance, remains under political control and is yet to be granted the independence
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Greece's 2009 deficit makes for a good conspiracy; shame about the numbers
Agoraof duty, and not for falsifying data. Greece’s highest court accepted the prosecutor’s appeal... Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis lost control of all fiscal order very early in 2009 and, taking
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Putting right everything that went wrong in Mati
Agoraperplexing. Rather than seek to reassure citizens that it was at least in control of the relief effort... by firefighters, trying to put out blazes by air or on the ground, and doctors and nurses who stayed on duty
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Newsletter 342 - 17/06/2022
in fuel duty. There is less clarity around the price cap on household energy bills, which is due to come... of a new instrument to control spreads in the eurozone. After last week’s regular meeting, when the ECB
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New Democracy leadership headed for showdown with right wing over migrant labour bill
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the former PM, who recently told a Sunday newspaper that he saw it as his duty as a former premier... that the legislation would not compromise the government’s stance on border control which he defended as one
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