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Under-fire PM pledges civil defence improvements following summer of destruction
PoliticsGreek Politicsto complete the construction of the wall on Greece’s land border with Turkey, in Evros... protection capabilities. Among other things, the PM promised to hire more firefighters and forest rangers
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Athens prepares for Blinken visit, hopeful of Libya shifting position
PoliticsForeign Policywarplanes to Greece, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. Analysts see this move... or are related to natural resources explorations.” However, it is not certain whether this ruling is binding... in a case that is being ruled by a Supreme Court.” Whether the ruling is binding or not, the Greek
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
Agorahit a brick wall. It lacked the conviction to make the tough changes in the public sector, to make... are without a job and have diminishing prospects of finding one. Over the last three years, salaries have
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PM seeks to leave ICU controversy behind as Tsipras ups stakes with snap election call
PoliticsGreek Politicsbusinesses to the wall, in favour of large corporations. On the economic front, Mitsotakis announced... been prompted by several things, including the fact that ND has been finding itself on the defensive
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Samaras seeks vote of confidence and moment of history
AgoraPop quiz: When was the last time Greece held elections at the end of the government’s four-year term? It was in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall fell, F.W. de Klerk started dismantling apartheid...? This time, Samaras is hoping for the opposite effect. By winning the ballot, the prime minister
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Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016
. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal this week, Labour Minister Giorgos Katrougalos said that SYRIZA has... turned to winning the September elections. Thoughts of how his government would implement the deal
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SYRIZA's long, slow march
Agorato the depth of problems facing Greece growing that bit larger. Speaking to the Wall Street Journal last week... the bailout agreement he had pledged never to sign, Tsipras’s focus turned to winning the September
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Athens looks to Draghi for positive signals on debt relief
PoliticsGreek Politics, according to the Wall Street Journal. “Everybody pretends as if some kind of debt relief would make... there will be tactical retreats. This is a negotiation. Battles are important. But we are looking at winning the war
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Tsipras bids to maintain unity after heavy defeat for SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsofficials were occasionally guilty of arrogant behaviour and that this created a wall between them... for SYRIZA). It had been suggested that the size of the opposition party’s winning margin took
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Tracing the decline of the middle class as parties vie for its votes
EconomyFeaturesto wall, and that is why professional politicians mostly avoid it, preferring instead to allude..., Tsakalotos’s alternate minister Giorgos Houliarakis, gifted the opposition a winning card when he told
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