25.01.2018
Editorial: Gauging the weighing scales
Greece has the misfortune of being in a neighbourhood in which, so often in the past, the winds of nationalism swept away the voices of moderation, consensus and logic.
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24.01.2018
Greece, Skopje make strong, symbolic reconciliation moves, settlement still elusive
FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, announced today he will take immediate steps to change the name of the Skopje Alexander the Great Airport and of a national highway with the same name. Greek government will move to ratify in parliament the second stage of the FYROM-EU Association Agreement, Tsipras announced
24.01.2018
Editorial: Wars
For the past three years, the government has proven unable to comprehend that battles are not won with communications machines, but rather in the arena of real politics.
24.01.2018
ECB’s Draghi wants government to extend loan default auctions nationwide
“It is of crucial importance for the economic recovery in Greece, and the forward looking capital adequacy of Greek banks, that progress be made on NPE resolution,” the letter states.
23.01.2018
Prime Minister’s office lambastes old Bakoyannis FYROM remark
In yet another effort to put opposition New Democracy on the spot over its position on the FYROM naming issue - given...
23.01.2018
Erdogan sends his deputy justice minister to ratchet up pressure over eight officers
“Of course the issue of the Turkish officers was raised,” Kontonis told journalists, returning to his offer that the eight can be tried in Greece if Ankara decides to submit a request to that effect.
23.01.2018
Editorial: Humiliation
People with chronic ailments must wait in line for up to three hours for palliative medication, or medicines necessary for their survival.
23.01.2018
Editorial: Loneliness
On the FYROM naming issue, the prime minister attempted once again to reap any possible political benefits, while shifting the political cost.
22.01.2018
Archbishop Ieronymos calls for national unity, but reject FΥROM’s use of name Macedonia
Ieronymos underlined that of the full hierarchy of 82 Metropolitan bishops of the Greek Orthodox Church of Greece, only nine attended the massive Thessaloniki protest.
22.01.2018
Huge Thessaloniki FYROM name protest bedevils government
The government did everything in its power to limit attendance at the protest, including persuading Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece to come out against FYROM protests.
19.01.2018
Mikis Theodorakis’ open letter to a tenor from FYROM on Skopje’s irredentism
In his lengthy response to a letter sent to him by an operatic singer from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, published...
19.01.2018
Editorial: Answers urgently needed
These interventions begin with statements of criticism and telling judges how to do their job, and go as far as the moral annihilation of judicial functionaries who are not to the government’s liking.
19.01.2018
New Democracy charges organised government plan to control judiciary
The main opposition party focuses in particular on how the government dealt with the vice president of the Council of State, Athanasios Rantos, who was on the bench when the high court ruled unconstitutional the government’s law on broadcast television licensing.
18.01.2018
Golden Dawn toppled angel statue that local bishop wanted moved, mayor says
"I know who commits these sorts of macho acts. I have indications that they are Golden Dawn members,” Palaio Faliro Mayor Dionysis Hatzidakis said, without offering evidence to substantiate the charge against the fascist party.
18.01.2018
Editorial: Confessions behind closed doors
Unfortunately for our country, a clean exit from supervision is impossible, as much as the government may want to present public opinion with a positive narrative.
18.01.2018
New, upper, northern, Vardar, and Skopje the qualifiers of name Macedonia tabled by UN
Five names were tabled for the renaming of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) yesterday by the UN Special Representative on the FYROM naming issue, Matthew Nimetz, in New York.
17.01.2018
IMF wants tax-free ceiling lowered one year earlier, in 2019
The finance ministry recently sent out feelers to creditors about the prospect of not implementing certain already legislated austerity measures if Greece’s economic performance and revenues exceed expectations, and the proposal was categorically dismissed.
17.01.2018
Editorial: The real issue
The external reality says that there can be no restructuring of the Greek debt without the implementation of new austerity measures.
