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Newsletter 387 - 30/06/2023
PoliticsMitsotakis re-elected, Tsipras beaten and far right resurgentSunday’s election delivered a comfortable majority and a second four-year term for Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, dealt... into 158 seats in Parliament. Main opposition party SYRIZA saw its support dwindle even further
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Second round of local elections deliver worrying results for PM, glimmer of hope for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, he was soundly beaten by Dimitris Kouretas, a candidate put forward by centre-left PASOK... on social media. It should also be noted that the Communist Party (KKE) saw its candidates win six
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Newsletter 488 - 12/12/2025
others saw them as legitimate pressure. The findings highlighted the government’s dilemma: appearing... MPs vented frustration at Tsiaras, warning they were being “beaten up out there” and even feared
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Tsipras tries to secure church's support in Macedonia name talks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIndependent Greeks (ANEL), has repeatedly expressed his opposition to Greece’s neighbour using the term... name proposals to resolve the dispute, which began in the early 1990s: Republika Nova Makedonija, Republika Gorna Makedonija, Republika Severna Makedonija, Republika Vardarska Makedonija and Republika
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Macedonia issue, planned rally stoke tension between parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsto concern Tsipras and his team at this stage. While the Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader has to play..., the Pulse poll suggests that support for ANEL stands well below the 3 percent threshold for gaining... percent view Sunday’s demonstration positively and 72 percent regard the name issue as “very
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New Democracy increases pressure on potential supporters of Prespes Agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicspartner Independent Greeks (ANEL) for support as the nationalist party’s leader, Panos Kammenos, has... of ANEL deputies have indicated that they might vote with SYRIZA but more support will still... an opportunity to stop Tsipras in his tracks, not only with regard to the name deal, but also
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Newsletter 454 - 07/03/2025
and towns saw the largest protests held for several decades in Greece last Friday, marking.... Greece last saw these yield levels in June last year and has been firmly on a downward path... of the weekUnemployment January saw a sharp drop in the unemployment rate to 8.7 pct, a drop of 3 percentage
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Newsletter 151 -16/02/2018
strategy with binding targets for employment, growth and fiscal discipline. The Labour Ministry's... as over five years old, saw their prices fall by 0.3 percent in Q4. Properties up to five years old saw also saw price falls at the same rate . Properties in Athens and Thessaloniki recorded price falls
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Possibility of snap elections after third bailout agreed is firmly on Tsipras's agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe possibility of working with ANEL again after snap elections, Gerovasili said she saw “no reason... (ANEL) has also voiced support this week for Tsipras and possible early elections. Top ANEL official
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Tsipras tries to weather Kammenos storm, looks for poll boost
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe stability of his coalition with Independent Greeks (ANEL) and its leader, Defence Minister Panos... in the party about the ANEL leader’s behaviour. New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis highlighted this point and claimed that SYRIZA and ANEL would end up dragging each other down. The government’s
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