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Tsipras sets off for USA as prior actions, e-auctions dominate at home
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras chaired a meeting with key ministers on Friday to assess the progress the government is making in completing the 95 prior actions that have to be ticked off this year. The meeting was held a few hours before the Greek leader set off for his official visit to the USA
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Tsipras fends off election rumours, Mitsotakis talks up moderate qualities
PoliticsGreek Politicsofficials it is thought, who prefer for the vote to be put off until next year so that the economy has more... tried to shrug off claims that he had allowed the right wing of his party to steer New Democracy
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Mitsotakis brushes off latest strike, opposition sides with protesters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government shrugged off Wednesday’s strike – the second in as many weeks – as the action of a small group of unionists rather than a larger protest against its proposed labour reforms. Although... of the diaspora vote would go towards New Democracy, killing off any chance that the leftists would
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MEP takes comfortable lead over former PM in advance of KINAL leadership run-off
PoliticsGreek Politics, faces former PM George Panandreou in the run-off on Sunday. The MEP gained 99,120 votes in the first... Androulakis as the favourite to win Sunday’s run-off by 16 points. An estimated 56.5 pct
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Dendias's Libya tangle cuts off Athens-Tripoli communication
PoliticsForeign PolicyMinistry issued a strong statement underlining that “the Greek minister refused to get off his plane... been closed off, especially following the decision of Libya’s Foreign Ministry to recall its
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Mitsotakis shrugs off scandals to hit back at foreign policy critics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn his parting shot just before the summer recess, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis turned fire on his predecessors’ foreign policy record, while brushing off the accusations of corruption that have engulfed... by backing off offshore projects, the most emblematic of which is the Greece-Cyprus interconnector
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China-Greece: One belt, one road?
Agoraoffshore blocks in the Ionian Sea and off southern Crete, has been extended until July 2015. Moreover... cooperation framework agreement to the Chinese authorities. His roadmap seeks to expand from existing port... for the sale of the majority stake (67.7 percent) in Piraeus Port Authority (OLP). Any manifest delay
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Newsletter 228 -15/11/2019
investment in Piraeus was the keystone of Monday’s proceedings. Mitsotakis and Xi visited the port... activities, as well as funding, at the port. “Our common aim is not just for Piraeus to become the biggest port in the Mediterranean, but in Europe,” said the Greek prime minister. Govt gears up for final
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The ECB's strict rules apply if you dare not comply
Agorathat had borrowed money under the ELA from the Central Bank of Ireland to pay off their creditors..., ranging from 27 to 40 years and an interest of 6 months Euribor plus 263 basis points coupon. Under
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Draft budget contains two scenarios on pensions, charts course within agreed fiscal targets
EconomyMacroeconomy, beating the target by 0.64 pps. In the alternative scenario, the Finance Ministry calls off pension... property tax and lower social insurance contributions. They are worth 263 and 229 million respectively
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