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Dissent grows within SYRIZA as polls indicated appetite for joined-up centre left
PoliticsGreek Politicselections. A separate survey conducted by Choose and Metron Analysis and presented at the inaugural... echoed later by another former minister, Yiannis Ragousis, who remains a member of SYRIZA’s central... collaboration across the centre left. The findings are bound to intensify debate within the main parties
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Clean exit under discussion but course of third review holds key
EconomyProgrammemember states to provide further funding to Greece after the third programme ends in August 2018... completed. It was also revealed that the government is considering replacing 20 separate bonds with a face
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Athens steps up drive for fiscal space as fifth post-MoU review continues
EconomyProgrammeChristos Staikouras is due to hold separate meetings with European Economic Affairs Commissioner Paolo... resistance from eurozone member states to the idea of reducing Greece’s fiscal targets, the ESM official... tax could be self-funding by broadening the tax base, the total abolition of the solidarity levy
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ND vies for more support on migration, gets tangled up in football controversy
PoliticsGreek Politicsamong member states as the EU prepares to draw up a new agreement on migration. Mitsotakis is due... in two separate meetings, when he will have a chance to explain Greece’s position. While gaining more... on Tuesday to sign agreements paving the way for more migration personnel and further funding to be sent
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Newsletter 87 - 09/09/2016
percent in 2013 to 28 percent in 2014, the biggest fall among the EU member states. The Hellenic... on Friday meant that the focus was very much on finding common ground on issues such as growth... to recognise reality, while finding someone to pin the blame on. When German Interior Minister Thomas de
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Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
Agora“Samaras rescues Greece” – it’s the headline the prime minister and many in his office would have cherished. But Giorgos Samaras, the striker without a club, has beaten premier Antonis to the title... that also saw them through the game with Ivory Coast. At a time when Greek society is so deeply divided
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ND on spot over police raid but opinion poll ratings provide comfort
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat they were beaten and arrested for supposedly impeding the police’s work after refusing to give access... rise for SYRIZA, which saw its backing rise to 25 pct. There was hardly any movement among
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Second round of local elections deliver worrying results for PM, glimmer of hope for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, he was soundly beaten by Dimitris Kouretas, a candidate put forward by centre-left PASOK... on social media. It should also be noted that the Communist Party (KKE) saw its candidates win six
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Running the wrong way: Rama's spat with the EU over vaccination underlines growing frustration
Agoracalled the bloc out for banning exports of medical equipment to non-member states, including.... In the same month, Albania saw medical equipment blocked at the border with Greece under the same EU..., the bloc was unable to come up with a unified approach and “left it up to Member States to cooperate
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Athens braces for return of lenders, discussion about measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsyear after 2019 is met. Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houliarakis was the first member.... “If the annual fiscal target is seen being missed or beaten, the positive fiscal measures will be increased
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