25.06.2018
Editorial: Cacophony
The refugee crisis is not testing only the cohesion of the European Union. It is challenging its values, the very system of values on which the European construct was founded.
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23.06.2018
Editorial: Defeat
The memorandum has ended for creditors as regards the issue of new loans, but it has not ended for our country, which will continue on the path of meeting its commitments towards them.
22.06.2018
Editorial: Illusions
It would be a disastrous error to cultivate the illusion that the end of the bailout programme in August signals a return to the normalcy of the pre-memorandum era.
21.06.2018
ESM’s Regling underlines importance of continued reforms
Klaus Regling says that taxes are high in Greece, compared to other countries, but it was unavoidable to do the fiscal adjustment that was needed. 'If there is fiscal space, I think [tax cuts] is one of the areas that this fiscal space should be applied'.
21.06.2018
Editorial: Vigilance
Undoubtedly, our country must align itself with the forces of humanism, while at the same time avoid being crushed by the forces of political calculation.
20.06.2018
FYROM’s parliament ratifies naming accord with Greece
The resolution of the dispute with Greece is a compromise “in which we and our Greek friends attempted to preserve what is important for all of us”, FYROM’s foreign minister said.
20.06.2018
Editorial: Memory
Believing that Greek citizens had forgotten the Macedonian issue, the government forgot people’s sensitivities, their emotional charge, their identification with historical memory, and the place that memory has in their identity.
19.06.2018
Athens has prepared letter to NATO on FYROM entry
Once Skopje conducts its referendum, if it chooses to do so in the end, and in any case after the Constitutional revision is completed, then Greece will ratify the agreement in parliament.
19.06.2018
Editorial: Priorities
It is impermissible to allow problems such as trash collection to fester. Problems that should have been solved yesterday cannot be put off until tomorrow.
18.06.2018
Ex-Golden Dawn MP captured, charged with preparations for high treason
In his 15 June speech in parliament, he called upon the military to arrest the President of the Republic, the PM, and the Defence Minister, so as to block the signing of the FYROM naming agreement.
18.06.2018
Editorial: Disharmony
The government handled the FYROM naming issue with the same anxiety as it does all others, the anxiety to register a success without taking into account the cost that citizens believe they have shouldered.
16.06.2018
Editorial: Holy Grails
Debt restructuring remained the Holy Grail of a government that had brutally taxed citizens in order to meet extremely high primary surplus targets, to which it had agreed with creditors.
15.06.2018
Golden Dawn MP calls on military to arrest PM, President, Kammenos
Parliament Speaker Nikos Voutsis described Barbarousis’ unprecedented statement as an effort to incite violence at the demonstrations against the FYROM agreement today, tomorrow and on Sunday.
15.06.2018
Editorial: Circumstances
Even as the discussion was focused on the FYROM issue, the government passed the worst medium-term fiscal programme that the country has ever seen.
14.06.2018
Political uproar over trip of Kammenos, Prosecutor Tziva to Monaco
According to a report in the newspaper Parapolitika, Kammenos and his wife, over the three-day Holy Spirit holiday weekend, traveled to Monaco, at the same time that Prosecutor Tziva was there.
14.06.2018
Editorial: Answers
The question that is raised is whether the government has the democratic legitimisation to sign the agreement, when one of the two ruling coalition partners declares that he will not sign.
14.06.2018
‘Grey zones’ in FYROM naming accord, expert says
Another question is how and when FYROM will enter Nato. If the Nato accession process begins, it cannot be cut off.
13.06.2018
Regling praises Greece’s progress toward bailout exit
Regling acknowledged that Athens has done much work on the fiscal front, and he said that Greece will be the fifth success of the eurozone.
