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Professional classes, under the current taxation regime, which has turned into a taxation pogrom, have reached the point of working professionally only to pay all their income to the state.

It seems like the theatre of the absurd, but unfortunately it is actually the outward image of the government. It is an image that not only exposes the government in the eyes of citizens, but also embarrasses the country internationally. It is impossible to recall in recent history, or even in the history of the […]

The prime minister is rushing to “give it all” in handouts, as a memorable political slogan from the 1980’s said.

The government is attempting to conceal the obvious, which is that the helping hand it extended to the Chancellor was not due to humanitarianism, but rather to political and economic considerations.

Greek society yearns for political change, and it does not want to credit the government with more time.

More space must be given to the Greece that excels, despite adverse conditions. Incentives must be offered to bolster it in every way.

Mandra's residents lived through a second nightmare, which creates other nightmares: abandonment, despair, and rage.

What is it if not blackmail when one maintains that if the Independent Greeks MP who declared himself independent does not surrender his parliamentary seat, that proves that he is participating in a 'plan for a new apostasy'?

In choosing between the over-taxation of citizens and the reduction of public sector expenditures, the government chose over-taxation to meet its obligations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.