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Newsletter 472 - 25/07/2025
scrutiny following a series of diplomatic setbacks. Relations with Libya have soured, culminating in two... stance on Libya, reflecting broader unease about the state of Greek diplomacy. Current government.... On Libya, Mitsotakis reiterated his rejection of the Turkey-Libya maritime deal, describing it as legally
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Newsletter 59 - 22/01/2016
): these were all signposts pointing towards Alexis Tsipras crashing into the wall.... The next privatisation projects include the submission of binding bids for the full sale of rail... having adopted the bailout and agreed to implement it, appears to be having a binding effect. Tsipras
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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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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agoraby traffickers) and building a wall on Greece’s border with Turkey and laying mines next to it. As things stand... of Mitsotakis’s success, both in gaining control of his party and winning the European elections, has been
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