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Newsletter 11 - 16/01/2015
SYRIZA closes in on victory Overall majority may be out of reach A dramatic reduction in SYRIZA’s... widening financing gaps. Moreover, the European Central Bank in Frankfurt is holding back last year’s... debt. Hardouvelis stressed that this money is necessary to cover the country’s funding needs
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Newsletter 45 - 02/10/2015
they supported New Democracy. The date of the vote is not yet known. Meimarakis favours holding the ballot... economic difficulties and the challenge of dealing with the dramatic influx of people fleeing war... significant funding, as Tsipras indicated in his comments to the Wall Street Journal. The European Union
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Newsletter 5 - 28/11/2014
unsettles coalition Papandreou–Venizelos rivalry threatens to split party PASOK’s dramatic decline from..., is unlikely to have anything to gain from holding a leadership contest to clear the air. He does... that the EU programme was due to expire, with the aim of replacing IMF funding by tapping bond
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Soldiers' return from Turkey provides Tsipras with timely boost
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Greece as Turkey announced the release of the two Greek soldiers it had been holding since March... in Mati last month, the soldiers release was a huge relief for the coalition. The government had... the programme have been abandoned because of the death toll from the Mati fire, but Tsipras is still
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ND tries to stay on top of wildfire as court battle looms over Competition Commission
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEvia on Wednesday after visiting the fire brigade’s control centre in Athens and holding talks..., including last summer’s devastating fire in Mati, near Athens. Apart from returning from his holidays... predecessor paid for the deaths in Mati and elsewhere. The government was also quick to stress
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You've heard the Greek crisis myths, now here are some truths
Agoragovernments let go of the purse strings and never recovered control again. The dramatic fiscal derailment... on many European banks holding Greek debt, which were already in a fragile position as a result... spent on. The result is many Europeans are left with the impression that their taxes have been funding
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Which way to the exit?
Agorathe dramatic years that followed. Even the most informed participants and organisations involved from... the first programme mainly served as a holding operation for the eurozone to firewall Greece.... There is ample funding available in the current programme to prepay these loans, all or in part
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Investigations into voter email leak continue despite denials from government
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Singular Logic, the technology contractor in charge of voting systems. At the same time, an Athens... into Tempe rail accident. On Wednesday, Parliament is scheduled to debate the findings... for their role in the accident. The families cited in their support the findings of another EU
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Athens promotes role as energy hub as PM prepares for talks in Washington
PoliticsForeign Policyon the Greek side since the contractor missed the deadline to deliver it by the end of 2021. The Greek... to carry 3 billion cubic meters of gas per year, received funding from the EU as well as Greece
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Newsletter 452 - 21/02/2025
their popularity and damage the government. His newspaper interview signalled a dramatic change in approach... that he held a key role in the SYRIZA government during its controversial handling deadly Mati
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