18.04.2019
Editorial: Paying the piper
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.
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18.04.2019
Marinakis blasts Kokkalis, Melissanidis regarding Olympiakos FC, vested interests
'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.
18.04.2019
Marinakis: Minister Pappas asked me to pay 26mn euros for Kalogritsas to get TV license
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.
17.04.2019
Famed sculptor Yannis Pappas’ Alexander the Great statue finally finds its place in Athens
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
17.04.2019
Editorial: Anachronistic adoption law
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.
16.04.2019
Editorial: Ideological fixations
The government and the education minister are driving young people to the misery of unemployment in the name of petty partisan gain.
15.04.2019
Editorial: Hell-holes
Prisons must ensure basic security and follow the basic tenets of humanism. Their goal must be the social re-integration of prisoners.
15.04.2019
Corruption Prosecutor to wrap up Novartis case within six months
Members of the health ministry’s committee for the evaluation of medicines will be examined in order to determine whether they made decisions which illegally benefited Novartis
14.04.2019
Editorial: Rain
The government must act poste haste and implement all the reforms that are required in order to shield an economy that is hanging by a thread.
13.04.2019
Editorial: Incidents of nepotism
This country has suffered from nepotism, and unfortunately it has continued under SYRIZA rule.
11.04.2019
Tsipras at EU summit asks leaders to back moves for the UK to stay in EU
Tsipras’ intervention at yesterday’s extraordinary EU summit on Brexit was revealed in a report by Bloomberg, which underlined that the Greek PM flipped the result of the referendum in July, 2015,
11.04.2019
Editorial: Manufacturing scandals
In democratic countries attempts to manufacture guilty parties do not go unpunished. Those responsible are held to account by the justice system.
10.04.2019
US Senate Act aims to lift arms embargo on Cyprus, boost Greece-Cyprus-Israel alliance
The bill comes in the midst of a severe crisis in US-Turkey relations arising from Ankara’s decision to buy Russian S-400 missile systems and to strengthen its embrace of Moscow. The purchase is sanctionable under US law.
10.04.2019
Editorial: Terrified
What remains to be seen is whether the government was unaware of the murky activities and ties between SYRIZA cadres on the one hand and Artemiou and Petsitis on the other.
09.04.2019
Fresh allegations about Anti-Corruption chief Xepapadea
Papadea said she had resigned from the management of the family business in 2015 and described the allegations against her as a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from the ongoing Novartis probe
09.04.2019
Editorial: Scandals
The political consensus needed to wage the anti-corruption battle is being destroyed, and that in itself is a first-class scandal.
08.04.2019
Akar: Greece, Cyprus should not ‘provoke’ Ankara
The Turkish defence minister said that Ankara seeks a dialogue at every level and conducts talks and contacts with its neighbours, but will give the necessary response if provoked.
08.04.2019
Editorial: Demolition
There will be a university of the academic elite on the one hand and on the other faculties that are looked down upon, whose students will have no interest in the subject of their studies.
