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Tsipras fails to halt strike as domestic political battle heats up
PoliticsGreek Politicsassured reporters on Wednesday that the coalition would not allow public health to be put at risk..., Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houliarakis set out what he thinks the government’s main targets should
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Athens hopes for sub-tranche this week, ND keeps up pressure on Kammenos
PoliticsGreek Politicsto put Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on the spot over the actions of his coalition partner, Independent... for a parliamentary inquiry to be set up to investigate Kammenos’s intervention in the Noor 1 drug smuggling
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Healthcare next stop for Tsipras amid Georgiou case fallout
PoliticsGreek Politicsthey need to put more pressure on Athens to ensure that the matter is resolved. One of the experts called... a hostile atmosphere in the courtroom and concluded that the trial was “an intimidating pre-set
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis look for new impetus from Thessaloniki appearances
PoliticsGreek Politicsand SYRIZA in the past. In the government camp, ministers and officials are trying to put the finishing... trip. Also, the possibility that Macron will set out his broader ambitions for reform
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Coalition returns to work with one eye on centre-left leadership contest
PoliticsGreek Politicscandidacies for the leadership contest, whose date has not been set yet, are also likely. Former PASOK... presence, it could put a spanner in the works for SYRIZA and New Democracy, both of which hope
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Tsipras invokes Andreas Papandreou as centre-left challenge simmers
PoliticsGreek Politicsabout the new initiative their party is set to be involved in. It appears that SYRIZA’s tactic... the opposition leader sought to put an end to his party’s participation in the war of words that broke out over
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Macron arrives in Athens, kindling government's hopes
PoliticsGreek Politicsreferenced ideas that he has set out before, such as the European Stability Mechanism replacing... over SYRIZA has narrowed. It put the conservatives on 22.6 percent and the leftists on 15.6 percent
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Mitsotakis pledges tax cuts and reforms, hopes for lower fiscal targets
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIt was New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s turn to step into the spotlight at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) last weekend and set out his proposals, which included lower taxes... and that it would never again put up posters in universities during student elections. “My aim is for us
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Tsipras tries to weather Kammenos storm, looks for poll boost
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras will be hoping that he has put an end to any doubts regarding the stability of his coalition with Independent Greeks (ANEL) and its leader, Defence Minister Panos... to a close, he is likely to be disappointed. The clash between Kammenos and Marinakis looks set
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Athens braces for review headwinds due to IMF demands, Berlin changes
PoliticsGreek Politicstrend since the completion of the second review of the Greek programme in June, could be put at risk... suggested that Wolfgang Schaeuble is set to leave the position, with an FDP politician, possibly party
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