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The alarm bell that the deputy prefect of Crete rang regarding the capacity of the island’s power grid also constitutes a sombre warning regarding the adequacy of the country’s infrastructure in general.

It is impermissible for a prime minister to be hosted on a yacht by a private citizen who in turn receives from the PM a public office, a diplomatic passport, and a nomination to gain membership in an international organisation.

“Re-running the elections is a negative development in that it extends this period of uncertainty,” said Edward Parker, managing director overseeing Turkey at Fitch Ratings,

The government’s haste in paying a bonus to pensioners immediately indicates that the timing of the general election may be sooner rather than later.

The Commission projects a Greek growth rate of 2.2 percent both in 2019 (where the forecast is unchanged since the last report) and in 2020 (for which the projection has been adjusted slightly downward).

The warnings of experts on the effects of climate change on food supply, food safety, health, and the quality of life globally must be viewed as a resounding alarm bell in order to take immediate action.

It is patently obvious that it cannot be that 145 experts from 59 countries are wrong but those who deny climate change – unfortunately including US President Donald Trump – are right.

The government has put taxpayers in an economic pincer which has created mounting debts to the tax bureau and to insurance funds.

'If you were not aware of these financial situations of our Archdiocese as you claim, then who was the Archbishop I was working very close with these past 17 years?' said

For months it has been clear that sooner or later Ankara would proceed with actions aiming to ensure that it has a place on the energy map of the southern Aegean.

Then alternate citizen’s protection minister Nikos Toskas, who was in charge of Greek police, in an apparent effort at plausible deniability declared today that the Prime Minister had not been informed of the deaths because they had not been “officially confirmed”

The crime has been perpetuated because the culprits are on the loose, because such a heinous crime has not been solved, and because there was no remorse for the chilling cry at the time of the crime: “Let them burn!”

In the 13 prefectures of the region of Macedonia SYRIZA is trailing New Democracy by a whopping 14.3 percentage points.

This government has instituted measures which previous ones would never have considered. It tied up state assets by handing them over to the Asset  Development Fund, cut pensions, and passed a law lowering the tax-free threshold.

The provision to make many felonies simple misdemeanours will lead to closing about 4,500 felony cases. Thousands of cases involving theft, embezzlement, fraud, and breach of duty will simply disappear.

The government’s slew of handout and social benefits that are designed to lure voters does not appear to have substantially improved SYRIZA’s polling numbers.

A man was killed this Easter and another person is in hospital struggling to survive because of customs such as homemade, hand-held rocket-like fireworks and the celebratory shooting up into the air with rifles.

Given the current impasse and the dark electoral projections the only card the PM has left is snap elections.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told the Financial Times in an interview that he is not going to base his electoral campaign on charity or handouts.

The Left has always been proud of its moral stance. That moral stance was demolished by the left-wing SYRIZA government.

'Modern Greek Studies programmes are dynamic loci of that culture as they not only have high-level educational programmes but also act as a vehicle for the transmission of values to society,' says Ohio State University Professor Yorgos Anagnostou.

Pavlos Polakis blastsKimbouropoulos after said the disabled are not interested in gifts and charity but rather equal opportunity.

It is clear that the demographic problem must be placed at the top of the agenda of the current and future governments.

Many may not be aware of the significance of Greek seamanship. It is not simply the art of sailing. It is a broader nexus of knowledge. It is a traditional code of sailors’ ethics.

The οne $ million fundraising completed by the local Greek community, with lead sponsor Mr. Evangelos Marinakis, safeguards the operation of a department that was destined to close, with the creation of the “Miltiadis Marinakis Professorship for Modern Greek Language and Culture”.

Personal information to which others should not be privy such as one’s body weight or whether one has a pet end up in the hands of companies which sell it to all and sundry.

It is a dishonour for any politician to invoke a law that protects ministers from prosecution by requiring that Parliament lift his or her parliamentary immunity.

The observation of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises [SEV] that the longer the pre-election period the greater the danger of a transient recession is noteworthy.  

'I did not and do not have ties with the public sector. I did not intertwine my interests with a party and politicians in order to hugely enlarge my business. My business is abroad. I serve Greece in global shipping,' Marinakis said about Sokratis Kokkalis.

Marinakis told Real FM in a no-holds barred interview that Pappas told him that he had briefed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras about the meetings and the request.

The more cynical among the government’s critics say that the placement of the statue aims to temper the huge backlash after the Prespa naming Agreement last year, which has decimated support for the ruling party in northern Greece

Hospitals cannot be turned into warehouses for children without families and children cannot grow up locked in a hospital just because the state lacks suitable facilities.

The government and the education minister are driving young people to the misery of unemployment in the name of petty partisan gain.