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Early summer fire highlights precariousness of snap election option
PoliticsGreek Politicssaid “anger” and 24 pct said “despair”. The top-ranked positive sentiment was “hope” with 18 pct... meant ND was not completely shielded from accusations of incompetence, lack of preparation and failing
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Baerbock visit leaves Athens hopeful of shift in Germany's stance on Greek-Turkish disputes
PoliticsForeign Policyprovoked anger in Turkey, which was evident during the joint press conference with her Turkish... opinion if she had also criticized Greece, whom he accused of failing to respect ECHR rulings regarding
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PM scrambles to rein in political fallout as deadly crash threatens to upend election contest
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs anger over Tuesday’s deadly train collision dominates the front pages of the national papers, the search for the causes behind the accident has supplanted speculation over elections at the top... the European Commission’s decision in February to take Greece to court for failing to put in place basic
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Newsletter 373 - 10/03/2023
to their polling stations after the Easter celebrations, which also might help dampen the current anger... apologising to the bereaved families and to the nation for failing to prevent the accident
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Sensing weakened government, opposition pushes back against blame-sharing for rail accident
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe continuing expressions of public anger sparked by the deadly train collision in central Greece almost two weeks ago have given the opposition the upper hand as New Democracy struggles to maintain... of bearing the responsibility for delays in implementing upgrades and failing to account for over 3 billion
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Spotlight on far-right party that might upset election arithmetic
PoliticsGreek Politicsanger against the government. Prior to the accident the party occasionally edged close to the 3 pct...With opinion polls failing to predict a clear-cut result in May’s elections, attention has turned to the leadership manoeuvrings of the new far right party Ellines (Greeks), whose entry
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Floods force Mitsotakis to postpone policy speech amid political fallout from ferry death
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the storms, and the public anger at the lack of preparedness by the authorities. However... leader Nikos Androulakis accused the government of failing to put in place adequate prevention
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ND doubles down on stricter migration policy, riling opponents
PoliticsGreek Politicscurbing of rights and benefits for asylum seekers will prompt anger among parties on the left.... He accused the government of wasting 20 billion euros over the last four years and of failing
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PM’s rivals rally to farmers’ cause as protests continue across country
PoliticsGreek Politicsstage, and a signal that he may seek to capitalise on grassroots anger to carve out a new role... of farmers” and failing to provide meaningful solutions, arguing that New Democracy’s stance
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Farmers’ protests escalate as political veterans express concerns about democracy
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe depth of rural anger and placed fresh pressure on Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s administration... administration is failing to uphold the standards of rule of law that underpin democratic
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