Tags
PASOK-KINAL
RSS-
PoliticsGreek Politics
Spying scandal triggers high-level resignations, serious questions for government and PM After evading and playing down for weeks claims it was spying on journalists and political rivals, the government was rocked on Friday by the resignation of the Prime Minister’s general secretary, Grigoris Dimitriadis, and the head of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), Panagiotis Kontoleon, in what is shaping up as the biggest scandal yet during Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s tenure.
-
PoliticsGreek Politics
Numbers stacking up for PM to announce winter relief package Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis heads for his summer holidays on Friday knowing that upon his return he will have to decide with his ministers what relief measures the government will set out at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) next month.
-
PoliticsGreek Politics
Summer Covid wave sparks fresh warnings, as opposition unites on gender-based violence The government’s confidence in its handling of Covid-19 over the summer is being challenged by the high death toll recorded in July, and the expectation of a new wave in the autumn.
-
PoliticsGreek Politics
ND faces fiscal balancing act and more challenges over spying scandal The government is trying to look ahead to the package of inflation-busting measures Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will announce in just over a month at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), but the opposition sense it can impede New Democracy’s momentum by focussing on the spyware scandal.
-
PoliticsGreek Politics
ND exults in Saudi Arabia deals as opposition calls for answers over spyware The government’s efforts to ensure that a blaze of positive publicity accompanied the range of agreements that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis signed with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday were somewhat overshadowed by questions about what links the conservative administration might have to attempts to eavesdrop on journalists and political rivals.
-
PoliticsGreek Politics
Early details show energy emergency plan facing practical challenges As Greek authorities prepare for pan-European natural gas shortages in the coming months, the regulator’s national emergency plan offers a glimpse of the cost and effort that will be required to keep the lights on this winter.
-
PoliticsGreek Politics
Flashpoints fuel contest for centrist voters As the battle intensifies between Greek parties for the support of centre ground voters, a group which could decide the outcome of the next elections, opinion polls continue to show that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has a strong appeal among centrists, and that PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis has overtaken SYRIZA’s Alexis Tsipras.
-
PoliticsGreek Politics
Opposition parties step up pressure after back-and-forth over election date Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis may have taken the possibility of snap elections off the table, at least for now, but the opposition parties are showing no appetite for letting up in their efforts to improve their standing ahead of the next vote.
-
PoliticsGreek Politics
Explanations sought as PM backs away from prospect of early elections The fallout from Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s insistence this week that he does not have plans to call snap elections in the autumn continued on Friday as the local media attempted to explain his decision given that early polls were considered a near certainty over the last few weeks.
-
PoliticsGreek Politics
Mitsotakis insists on no early elections, accusing opposition of sowing division The ongoing speculation about early elections took another twist on Wednesday, when Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis repeatedly asserted in Parliament that he intended to exhaust his term in office.