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From pipe dreams to power cables: the changing map of Greece's energy ambitions
Agorathat neighbouring markets may be more fickle than originally thought. Exports from the Greek gas grid almost... infrastructure. The alignment of interest between Greek policy makers and commercial players may also... in Elica, the developer of the GREGY interconnector. In May 2023 the two companies signed an MoU
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Newsletter 473 - 01/08/2025
place in recent polling. While Mitsotakis may have succeeded in shielding Voridis and Avgenakis... and over 3 points respectively. Retail Seasonality pushed retail sales down sharply in May with a drop of 4.4 pct YoY as Orthodox Easter last year was in early May, compared to April this year. Volumes
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After ND congress, Mitsotakis sets course and Tsipras sets date
PoliticsGreek Politicsand sharpen its message to undecided voters. In the meantime, Alexis Tsipras has now fixed May 26... landscape, it remains the only stable, reliable governing force. May 26 launch Alexis Tsipras’s announcement of May 26 as the launch date for his new party marks a political re‑entry designed to reshape
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Newsletter 505 - 22/05/2026
as a potential inflection point. May launch While ND was managing internal turbulence and projecting... spectrum. He announced May 26 as the launch date for his new party. The event in central Athens.... What will concern the Greek authorities is that even these downward‑revised estimates may be capturing
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Athens alarmed by renewed Turkish airspace violations amid maritime tensions
PoliticsForeign Policythat Ankara may be testing a return to older patterns of military pressure after nearly three years... in March and May 2026. Greek authorities note that these incidents are difficult to justify... the bill may be intended partly as a political counterweight to Greece’s Maritime Spatial Planning
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PM shapes high stakes autumn agenda as Turkey’s marine parks move prompts backlash
PoliticsGreek Politicsinterconnection. The UN General Assembly in late September may open space for an informal five‑party... international law. As Athens sees it, Turkey may legislate marine parks only within its own territorial... 89 UNCLOS states that no state may claim sovereignty over any part of the high seas. Greece
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Down but not out: Golden Dawn rears its head again
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Agora,” he says. Although the party itself may eventually be eclipsed, the ideas that propelled... of the Golden Dawn party, including parliamentary deputies and party leader Nikos Michaloliakos... leader Nikos Michaloliakos and two senior lawmakers were put behind bars pending trial on charges
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitics. While the police may be keener on a tougher stance, SYRIZA will be fearful of the impact... and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos
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Factionalism rears its head in build-up to SYRIZA's congress
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat at first may appear trivial. The first anomaly prompted by the police operations in Thessaloniki...’ Protection Minister Nikos Toskas, who said that the police had his full backing, was stark... with Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias, who was aligned with PASOK in the past) that issued a defence
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All-round concern about Greek-Turkish tension in run-up to referendum
PoliticsForeign Policy, referring to Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias as a “spoiled brat.” The fervent nature of the rhetoric used by Erdogan and Bahceli has caused concern in Athens, and elsewhere, that overzealousness may lead... to take place off the coast of Cyprus in the summer. Cypriot spokesman Nikos Christodoulides called
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