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Election date seen hanging in balance as PM weighs pros and cons
PoliticsGreek Politicscontracts. The latest case of alleged sleaze involves New Democracy official Andreas Koutoupis
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Newsletter 154 -9/03/2018
visit in late February. The aim of the next visit will be to secure a staff-level agreement (SLA... in Fileleftheros (Liberal) newspaper, which claimed that Greece and its creditors had discussed... percent in 2017, and for imports of goods and services to rise by 6 percent. The latest MoF forecast
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Demands for public space put New Democracy under pressure as local elections approach
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the Halkidiki. Minister of State Akis Skertsos sent a stern message in Sunday’s Kathimerini newspaper... the governing party which also dominates local authorities. Indeed, opposition parties have been quick... Minister Yiannis Economou returned urgently to Athens from an official visit to Albania to deal
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Speculation about snap polls after summer revived by PM's US trip
PoliticsGreek Politicssources briefing local journalists in the wake of the US visit about snap polls being in the PM’s mind... tenure and not such a great deviation from the norm. Pros and cons The incentives for Mitsotakis
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Newsletter 66 - 11/03/2016
on Tuesday, when the two countries also signed an updated readmission agreement. The latest version... For Greece, EU–Turkey refugee plan has pros and many cons Greece is the only one of the countries... by the EU is held up by the customary bureaucracy in Brussels. The latest plan also places a new kind
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Tsipras facing more media intervention claims after changes at newspaper
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is facing fresh accusations of trying to control the media following the latest... Nikos Pappas. He was also president of the board at Avgi, the daily newspaper backed by SYRIZA. Although..., the editor of Ta Nea - the group’s flagship daily newspaper. Mitropoulos, like many
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Latest hooliganism crackdown greeted by mixture of anger and scepticism
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s response to the latest hooliganism incident has managed to anger the country’s top... not being utilised to their full extent and hinted that more was to come out of this latest initiative... media posts by several proprietors, Olympiacos FC in an official announcement accused
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Greece and Turkey launch latest round of talks, building up to Ankara visit by Mitsotakis
PoliticsForeign PolicyKyriakos Mitsotakis will make his first visit to Ankara in May. In a radio interview last week... visit to Ankara. “The Prime Minister's trip to Ankara will be, in all probability, in May
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New Democracy tax pledges put spotlight on available fiscal space
EconomyProgrammeto Naftemporiki newspaper, almost 300 million euros of savings or extra revenues will have to be found... legislated an average 10 percent cut in the property levy, which would have led to 265 million euros less
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Mitsotakis shifts focus to tax plan, investment, law and order
PoliticsGreek Politicsstressed that the government has tightened up the asylum procedure with the latest legislative change... not eligible for protection. However, the prime minister was quick to stress that the migration issue..., the focus has been on the latest tax bill unveiled by the government last week. Mitsotakis appeared
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