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Ex-PMs engage in public spat, highlighting contrasting approaches to Turkey
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe Greek public sphere witnessed last week a rare incident for the country’s political scene - a debate through articles and statements by the two prime ministers who governed Greece between 1996 and 2009 on their views regarding foreign policy regardi...
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Parliament starts process of probing Greek debt and MoUs - further division likely
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe inaugural sessions of Parliament’s “Truth Committee for Public Debt” over the weekend. The panel was set... will be responsible for the Greek panel’s scientific coordination. A brief trailer advertising the committee’s work... addressed the committee, prompting complaints from opposition parties who saw this as a move
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Parties at loggerheads over inquiry into media handouts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA’s bid to put New Democracy on the spot over the Covid awareness campaign that saw a variety... spokesman) has begun its proceedings but the ND deputies, who form a majority on the panel, rejected... people. The panel includes people from various walks of life, including academics based in Greece
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PM pins hopes on conciliatory approach to soften farmers' protests
PoliticsGreek Politicssections of the sector. A representative of the farming associations of Larissa said his members saw... by a SYRIZA member of the inquiry panel as “lying, provocative and unrepentant”. Karamanlis blamed... that the New Democracy majority on the panel was allowing Karamanlis to evade crucial questions
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Newsletter 15 - 13/02/2015
. While it may be fairly simple to name the agreement in another way, finding another monitoring... is to engage in the art of the possible, to choose synthesis instead of antithesis. Over the last... that the Eurosystem funding for Greek banks currently stands close to 80 billion, compared to 56 billion
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Newsletter 431 - 12/07/2024
Parliament elections, New Democracy is finding it hard to shake off the downbeat feeling among voters, while... a panel on the fringes of the NATO summit in DC, the Greek PM underscored his belief that “governing... direction, while only one in ten said they think things are going well. The poll findings suggest
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Newsletter 289 - 19/03/2021
Aristotelia Peloni spoke this week of finding a way to allow “society to decompress.” These include... on the panel were faced with disheartening data from Covid-19 tests, hospital admissions, intubations... at the end of last year that Greece would issue a very long maturity bond as part of its funding strategy
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Words will always hurt
Agorathis period. That’s why it was so appalling to hear Greece’s prime minister engage in this type... as battering rams in Greece’s daily political battle. On finding out that SYRIZA leader Alexis
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Newsletter 57 - 08/01/2016
by the government at the beginning of the week. Finding a formula to achieve pension cost savings... and packed his cabinet full of party hacks that could engage in a political battle with the leftist party
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Athens hopes for deal at Eurogroup but doubts persist
PoliticsGreek Politicsis within reach if all partners engage in good faith. @EU_Commission will push..., Athens is trying to appear optimistic about finding common ground with its lenders. Government spokesman
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