13.06.2018
Editorial: Responsibility
With the name issue having tortured the two sides for decades, it becomes clear that the agreement takes on a special weight that transcends the limits of just any international agreement.
English Edition
12.06.2018
Tsipras announced agreement with FYROM as ‘great diplomatic victory’
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced an historic agreement with FYROM PM Zoran Zaev on the naming issue and issues of identity and language that will allow Skopje to advance its membership application to Nato and the EU
12.06.2018
Karapapas’ answers attacks on Marinakis
Kostas Karapapas has unleashed withering charges against Thanasis Karteros (PM Alexis Tsipras’ communications advisor) and against publisher Kostas Vaxevanis. Karapapas, the...
12.06.2018
Editorial: Explosive mixture
In FYROM, the nationalist opposition has not said its last word, and the government appears divided over domestic use of the new name.
11.06.2018
Editorial: Accounting
Despite the element that binds them, which is none other than staying in power, and a political and often aesthetic alignment, it is obvious that many in SYRIZA want to rid themselves of the Independent Greeks.
11.06.2018
Optimism regarding FYROM solution after Tsipras, Zaev talks
“We are in the last minutes of efforts for each side to come closer to the positions of the other, and when that happens we shall jointly announce the happy news for the residents of both countries,” Zaev said.
09.06.2018
Editorial: Dialogue
The former prime minister, Kostas Karamanlis, has a duty to speak about his work and days. The distance in time is his ally, and his judge, aside from the citizenry, is history.
08.06.2018
ESM postpones disbursement of 1bn euro tranche, due to arrears
The government received 500mn euros from March’s 5.7bn loan tranche in order to pay arrears, and it had an obligation to disburse another 500mn euros from the state budget
08.06.2018
Editorial: Puzzlement
The link between Turkish elections and provocations abroad is so obvious that it provokes puzzlement when one considers why our defence minister is fueling Turkish provocations with his statements.
07.06.2018
Cavusoglu: Turkey suspends migrant re-admission accord with Greece
'We also have a bilateral [migrant] re-admission agreement with Greece, and we have frozen that agreement. The process is not over yet, but our work with Greece will continue,' said Turkey's foreign minister.
07.06.2018
Ankara places frigate, two gunboats on alert in Aegean
The move comes straight on the heels of Greece’s joint (with Bulgarian, Romanian and Serbian forces) Special Operations Forces Exercises, named “Salamis Storm 2018”, which ended on 6 June.
07.06.2018
Editorial: Omens
Even without this increase in bad omens, however, it would not be difficult for one to see, as long as one possesses common sense, that a return to the markets was merely a chimera.
06.06.2018
One billion euros in handouts planned to counterbalance overtaxation, pension cuts
The government is already creating expectations of offering retirees a one-off 13th monthly pension, to counter-balance the planned 2019 pension cuts
05.06.2018
Editorial: Cowardice
It is the first time that the competent minister – and indeed in the pages of Ta Nea – has linked the hooligans who are active in Exarheia, or at least some of them, with drug dealing and trafficking.
05.06.2018
Tsipras extols global reach of Greek shipping at Posidonia 2018
For his part, Veniamis extolled the role of shipping in promoting global prosperity, and as the foundation for the development of the broader shipping industry.
04.06.2018
The works in Boston ended, but our mind is already set to the future
The works of the 3-day conference in Boston, organized by Harvard University, were concluded with everyone looking forward to the future. In...
01.06.2018
FYROM’s schismatic Church enters the fray in naming issue
FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev and the schismatic Macedonian Orthodox Church-Ohrid Archbishopric wrote to the Ecumenical Patriarchate to allow the local church to be re-incorporated into the canonical order of the Eastern Orthodox Churc
01.06.2018
Editorial: Logic
Many government cadres are saying what is not yet being publicly admitted: that the post-bailout precautionary credit line is the right choice.
