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  1. Episode 8 - Athens: An ancient city grappling with modern problems

    Agora

    In this episode, we take to the streets of our home city, Athens, to get an idea of what interventions would improve life in the Greek capital. Our producer Phoebe Fronista speaks to MacroPolis features writer Georgia Nakou about the Great Walk, a pilot...

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  2. Newsletter 277 -11/12/2020

    Newsletters

    PM rebuffs Covid-19 criticism Mitsotakis defends govt stance but is forced to extend some measures until Jan After being forced to extend Covid-19 restrictions into January, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tried to defend this week his, and his gover...

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  3. Greece’s downstream oil industry adapts to shifting demands
    Photo via http://www.helpe.gr/

    EconomyFeatures

    , followed by Iran (until sanctions in 2012), Libya, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan. As of January this year... a country very heavily dependent on oil with around 45 percent of its energy demands being met by oil. The country’s crude oil demand is almost entirely met by imports, with a small percentage coming from

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  4. PM gets no change out of opposition leaders on US trip, electoral law
    Photo via @kmitsotakis

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Fresh from his trip to Washington, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with opposition leaders... for closer defence cooperation with the US and his bid to change the electoral law. Mitsotakis met... with Libya or any other actions that Athens deems provocative. Tsipras, though, went a step further

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  5. Athens homing in on non-permanent seat at UNSC
    Photo by Andrea Bonetti/Fosphotos

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    boundaries within the so-called “Blue Homeland” doctrine, which includes the Turkey-Libya maritime... that “Since last June, I have met with my counterparts from 12 out of 15 countries that are non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. I also met with the Foreign Ministers

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  6. Athens prepares for Erdogan visit, high-level talks with Turkish officials
    Photo by MacroPolis

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on the sidelines of the NATO Summit... met with representatives of the Muslim minority in Greece. The limited time of Erdogan’s visit... levels, especially since the Libya-Turkey maritime memorandum is still in force. “As long as he

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  7. Greece makes first contact with new Syrian leader as PM chases up missile issue in Paris
    Image: https://www.mfa.gr/

    PoliticsForeign Policy

    on Sunday, where he met with Syrian Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and his Syrian counterpart Asaad... the country and met with Al-Sharaa. Greece had closed its embassy in Syria in July 2012, just over..., as was the case with the maritime memorandum between Libya and Turkey in 2019. Turkish officials have

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  8. The IMF crisis and how to solve it
    Photo via IMF photostream on Flickr [https://www.flickr.com/photos/imfphoto/]

    Agora

    that institutional biases are being tackled is to open up its kitchen to public scrutiny. Fund staff and real... is the perfect time for the Fund to open up its kitchen and show the world the ingredients that go

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  9. Macedonia and other Greek words

    Agora

    of modern Greece. This has exacerbated the feeling among many Greeks that darker motives lurk across... people that Alexis Tsipras met when he became prime minister, was also brought onto the stage... in the first rally. Ieronymos subsequently met with the rally organisers and gave his blessing

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  10. PM aims to maintain pace of economic reforms as public worries about migration

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    with modern practices and to make it attractive to investors. SYRIZA argues it will create two-speed... discussion away from the refugee issue. However, yet another opinion poll published before ministers met.../migration issue, while 59 percent are concerned about the rise of far-right parties. Mitsotakis met

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