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Newsletter 470 - 11/07/2025
PoliticsMigration surges to forefront of political agendaWith no major breakthroughs in the ongoing farming subsidy scandal, Greece’s political spotlight shifted sharply to migration this week—spurred by a diplomatic debacle in Libya. On Tuesday, a high-level EU delegation, including Greece’s newly
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Left poised for watershed moment as parties adjust to new opposition landscape
PoliticsGreek Politicssurvey confirms a pattern now visible across multiple pollsters. ELAS (Greek Left Alliance), the party..., the poll's qualitative data suggest ELAS is drawing voters primarily from the centre-left space, from... the latest developments, being squeezed from the left by ELAS and from the right by the constitutional
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Officials downplay significance of Trump F-35 signal to Turkey amid fears of softer US sanctions
PoliticsGreek Politics, while ex-PM Alexis Tsipras’s new party ELAS (Greek Left Alliance) has consolidated in second place, ahead of a declining PASOK. With ELAS shaping up as the main opposition, some of the findings test... intention, giving the conservatives a double-digit lead over ELAS. The gap has narrowed, however
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PM uses island visit to highlight border control as Tsipras makes decentralisation play
PoliticsGreek Politicswith his new party ELAS. The choice of Leros was deliberate, allowing the prime minister to set... rhetorical contrast with a "2015 Tsipras" added strategic urgency now that ELAS, rather than SYRIZA, has... an ELAS event in Athens, attended by more than 500 local government figures, to present the "Aristotle
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Androulakis presents governing plan, dances around questions about post-election alliances
PoliticsGreek Politicsparty’s claim for voters’ attention after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakos and ELAS leader Alexis... issues are theirs to solve.” He reaffirmed that PASOK will not become a “supplement” to either ND or ELAS... in previous appearances, accusing ELAS of being supported by “oligarchs” and arguing that Tsipras
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PM launches tech “investment marathon” in US as fuel prices dominate domestic agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicslaunching a renewed offensive at the helm of second-polling ELAS. After two days in San Francisco... of government and policy direction, positioning ELAS as the only force with the experience and "plan for the day after" needed to unseat the prime minister. Tsipras said ELAS would "pursue and exhaust every
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Lack of perceived alternatives strengthens ND as challenger parties lose shine
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe parliamentary inquiry into the OPEKEPE farm payments scandal, which concluded officially on Tuesday, finding no evidence to refer two former rural development ministers for further scrutiny. The latest poll... on the part of two former rural development ministers. This is the second parliamentary vote to exonerate
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Opposition pledges to continue pursuing OPEKEPE scandal as new evidence emerges
PoliticsGreek Politicsin which he claimed to have been pressured repeatedly by former rural affairs minister Lefteris... for the government, the Rural Development Ministry confirmed late last week that a memo sent by another... in order to outflank his internal challengers, while avoiding a binding vote.
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OPEKEPE, Predator and Ankara tension set tone for post-Easter politics
PoliticsGreek Politicsof an organisation treated as a political patronage mechanism in rural constituencies. The political management... the reporting, with Deputy Rural Development Minister Makarios Lazaridis publicly disputing aspects... finding that Intellexa operated exclusively in the field of data extraction through surveillance
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Newsletter 508 - 12/06/2026
, ELAS, provided they resign their parliamentary seats. Party president Sokratis Famellos framed the decision as a progressive duty, arguing that ELAS has created “new dynamics” and that the balance... for ELAS, which continues to gain momentum. Two new polls this week, by Marc and Prorata, place Tsipras’s
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