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ND tries to stay on top of wildfire as court battle looms over Competition Commission
PoliticsGreek Politics. A European Commission official revealed on Tuesday that Mitsotakis has spoken to European Commissioner..., Mitsotakis is departing from Tsipras’s practice of avoiding disaster sites and only visiting days after... the government and public officials are performing effectively. It seems that if the fire does not get
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Mitsotakis sees poll rise despite ongoing spat with critical MP
PoliticsGreek Politicsminister Pavlos Polakis was the only SYRIZA official who reacted publicly to Kasselakis’s post. The Cretan... contracts for the snack bars at archaeological sites. He went on to raise questions about other areas... indicated that support among SYRIZA officials for Polakis is not particularly strong and his loyalists
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Young Greeks more likely to swap items and buy second hand
SocietyDuring the economic crisis people have been watching Greece closely for signs of a change in mentality or attitudes in the country, particularly with respect to whether young Greeks are adopting different practices to the previous generation. We have se...
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Newsletter 239 -14/02/2020
of the asylum law, creating an official register for NGOs and an effort to step up the number of migrants... of any new facilities on the islands. Separately, communities closest to the planned sites have voted
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New development law chips away at Greece's Natura 2000 regime
Society, the government’s official advisory body on the protection of biodiversity, while the Parliament’s Scientific... directive 92/43/EEC. Between then and 2017, Greece has designated 446 sites, comprising 35,982 km2 of land
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New Democracy suffers ratings blow as farming payments scandal unfolds
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe ruling party. The vote projection also showed the official opposition PASOK at 12.5 pct, 0.5 points... sites. Mayors say local communities are concerned about the potential effect on tourism, arguing
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Fitch upgrades Greek rating to 'BB-', three notches from investment grade
Economyto be used to buy back some of the official sector loans, IMF for example, further improving... is on concessional terms due to the official sector loans, which keeps servicing costs low and maturities... Greece and official creditors. In the near-term, the deal between Greece and FYROM on the name has caused
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Newsletter 9 - 30/12/2014
debt of 320 billion. In contrast, SYRIZA has clearly indicated it would request official debt... Stathakis reportedly indicated at the London roadshow last November that the ECB could buy EU-related debt... to do so”. Although this is the party’s official policy, SYRIZA’s strong left wing has adopted a more
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Politics trumping economic prudence in Greece
Agora. For one, we can now see how Piraeus Bank is using parts of the recently raised capital of 500... is immediately using fifty per cent of April’s bond proceedings to buy a major stake in a highly indebted
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More than half of Greek households rely mainly on pensions
Societyto pay an extraordinary bill or cost of 500 euros. Over half (52.9 percent) said they would only... in the use of bank cards to buy household goods, from 15.8 percent in 2012 to 31 percent last year
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