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Alavanos said that the social benefits and handouts announced by Tsipras are a pittance in comparison to wage and pension cuts and the disastrous effect of over-taxation.

It would be a potentially fatal error for society to believe that the economy is back on track. In fact, there is a long road ahead.

'An economic policy grounded on over-taxation has an expiration date and an economic development model based exclusively on consumption and imports is by its very nature skewed.'

The problem is the PM's untrammeled pledges of handouts, the en masse civil service hiring, and the salary hikes for those affiliated with the ruling party.

According to the 10-page report drafted by coroner Sokratis Tsantiris, published by Vice Greece, Kostopoulos stopped breathing due to the blows to the body, and there were blows that proved decisive in bringing about his death.

'The motivations of the pre-electoral period should not lead us into adventures that are analogous to what we experienced and paid for in 2015,' the ex-PM said.

The merger of the two companies' tanker fleets under joint management sends ripples across international shipping

Eurobank is trying to craft its own solution to the looming problem, while the Greek government is focused on a national approach to expediting the resolution of NPLs.

New Democracy is demanding explanations from the PM about why three ministers allegedly acted to benefit convicted businessman Lavrentis Lavrentiadis at the state's expense.

On the crucial question, “Which party will bring economic growth?” New Democracy leads ruling SYRIZA by a whopping 30 percentage points.

No one expected that Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, whose governance has been viewed positively until now, would join the club of those disputing European unification.

Mitsotakis asked Tsipras if he agrees with his education minister, Kostas Gavroglu, who said recently that the answer to campus violence is a “robust student movement”.

In 2019, the debt of the Central Government is projected to be 346.2mn euros, or 179.6 percent of GDP, a 12.8 percentage point reduction as compared to 2018.

The aim of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government is clear. It wants to win over as many social groups and strata as possible so as to avert an electoral trouncing.

By Nikos Hasapopoulos  When the European Commission decides to establish a “spy academy” in Greece, what comes to mind? It may be spies like James Bond”. Perhaps it would be John Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, which was turned into a movie in 1965? Or would it be the great […]

The calibre of the Athens Polytechnic is now recognised by top American universities, such as Columbia. That is why the two universities will for the first time collaborate on the undergraduate level in order to grant joint degrees.

Simitis has unwittingly been transformed into a symbol of resistance against all those who, armed with fake news and fetid propaganda, dream of becoming the Maduros or Erdogans of Greece.

The majority report of a parliamentary committee investigating possible scandals in the state’s procurement of medicines and vaccines has recommended a further judicial probe of the case.

Acts of violence besmirch and desecrate an anniversary that should be an occasion for a democratic rallying cry, and not division.

The Greek corporate scandal that was brought to light by the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Piraeus’ Akti Miaouli – Dimitris Melissanidis’ “leap” from Piraeus to the Emirate of Fujairah in the Arabian Peninsula – produced direct charges of embezzlement of $300mn by the Ernst and Young auditing committee. US Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt cooperated with the investigation – Meanwhile, Spyros Fokas, the General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Aegean, who has been removed but faces heavy charges, has stayed on as First Vice-President of OPAP, Greece’s leading gaming company

How did happen that Antonis Papadimitriou was able to “ostracise” everyone, and to now act as the great and sole manager of the huge estate of Aristotle Onassis, bargaining with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to secure his dominance in the fields of health, education, and letters and culture. It is unheard of not to have a member of the Onassis family in the Foundation that bears his name.

No one knows how safe the bridges in our country are, nor if and when they are ever inspected.

“In any event, the salary status of those who serve the Church constitutes the responsibility and decisions of the State,” the PM's office said.

The aim of the criminalisation of politics is obvious, to perpetuate suspicions about the activity of SYRIZA’s political opponents, and especially those who represent the centre-left.

The final state budget will be drafted without a provision for pension cuts, given the fact that a projection of a 3.5% primary surplus in 2019 was ensured.

The government has polarised the political system. It has attempted to divide society. It has manufactured enemies. It has sent messages of intolerance.

The decision to open the accounts was prompted by press reports regarding the testimony of Michel Josserand, a former executive at the Thales company, which had undertaken the modernisation Of Hellenic Navy frigates.

Merkel’s statement that “nationalism must not pass” places a little stone in the building of a wall against nationalism and populism, as does the reminder that toleration is the soul of Europe.

The Greek people do not deserve a state that is at the mercy of violence, and that allows a sense of insecurity to prevail on the street, fear at universities, and abandonment in the health system.

A parliamentary committee decided ex-health minister Makis Voridis and former alternate health minister Marios Salmas will be investigated regarding medical procedure pricing, noting that there are 'suspicions of manipulation and collusion'

It appears that Mr. Tsipras' political reversals – or kolotoumba as the international press called it, borrowing the original Greek) are the basic characteristics of the SYRIZA leader’s political path.

The question that naturally arises is what will happen in the event of a collapse of Italy, the GDP of which is ten times that of Greece’s, and the debt of which was 6.5 times greater in 2011?