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Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFormer Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday, highlighting the fragmentation in this part of the Greek political spectrum. With PASOK... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He
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PM seeks to douse snap election talk, points to October polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsfuelled on Monday by an amendment submitted to Parliament by the Interior Ministry. It aims... a parliamentary majority. The rule had been introduced in 2014 but the Interior Ministry argues
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Mitsotakis sworn in as prime minister as attention turns to Cabinet picks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDendias are tipped to return to former posts at the Labour and Interior Ministries respectively... the Interior Ministry. Chrisochoidis appointed the ministry under former Prime Minister George
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ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
PoliticsGreek Politics. On Monday, Interior Minister Makis Voridis tabled a bill in Parliament lifting restrictions on Greeks voting... voters has so far gathered 300 registrations, out of what the Interior Ministry estimates
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Greece aiming to agree updated migration deal with Turkey
PoliticsForeign PolicyJohansson and German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, the Greek minister said there is more cooperation... following the EU Interior minister’s council that “in my view this statement (EU-Turkey deal) should
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Data protection ruling adds to pressure on New Democracy from ranks
PoliticsGreek Politics-Michelle Asimakopoulou to obtain the contact details of overseas voters from the Interior Ministry... of State. In May, the Interior Ministry received a fine of 400,000 euros and Asimakopoulou herself
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Spree of media deals puts spotlight back on ownership issues
Societythe monopoly on print press distribution, and was already at an advanced stage of licensing a new TV channel, ONE TV, when he purchased MEGA. The MEGA deal follows Marinakis’s bid to purchase... platform Nova TV, which owns the broadcast rights for most of the Greek football SuperLeague
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Kammenos calls for lynching of mayor but ends up boxing himself into a corner
PoliticsGreek Politicswas confronted about it on September 16, storming out of a primetime morning TV show after calling... not go down well with some Independent Greek figures. Despite this internal strife, Independent
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After Merkel, Samaras faces immediate challenges on domestic front
PoliticsGreek Politicsto Mega TV on Monday night, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras was confident a deal could be struck... down fears that his government is on the verge of collapse by suggesting that other MPs were willing
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Preparations for local elections expose SYRIZA weakness
PoliticsGreek Politics, Theodoros Karypidis, were made public. Karypidis, a journalist and TV presenter, was picked to represent... that SYRIZA was hoping Karypidis would stand down on his own. Finally, a meeting of the political
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