20.01.2019
Editorial: The sole path
Access to the markets is not prohibitive for normal economies. No normal economy has been saddled with the straight-jacket of huge primary surpluses.
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20.01.2019
Editorial: The sole path
Despite the Prime Minister’s pronouncements that the country has returned to normalcy, it is clear that the economy has a long way...
18.01.2019
Amended FYROM Constitution has clear, indirect references to ‘Macedonian’ ethnicity
In effect, with the pretext of protecting the rights of veterans the clarification asserts clearly the existence of a Macedonian ethnicity (Macedonian people) and indeed liberation struggles that sought to unify the entire geographic area of Macedonia.
18.01.2019
Editorial: Callousness
The ruling SYRIZA party should explain why after failing to create its Utopia it cannot check the excessive zeal that is often exhibited by police.
17.01.2019
Civil Service 24-hour strike as parliament votes on teachers hiring bill
They are demanding an en masse hiring of thousands of substitute teachers to cover unfilled teaching positions.
17.01.2019
Editorial: Examples
One would have expected That a younger generation of politicians and those who preached a “new” kind of politics would have a different paradigm in wielding power.
17.01.2019
Tsipras wins confidence vote, Prespa Accord ratification now
In his speech, Potami MP Yorgos Amyras in parliament declared “You will find the single vote needed in tonight’s confidence vote, but you willl not find 151 votes [to ratify] the Prespa Agreement.”
16.01.2019
Mr. Tsipras’ stratagem
Mr. Tsipras is the second pole of the political system, opposite Mr. Mitsotakis. Moreover, no one can doubt that the other smaller parties on both the right and left will be crushed in the heightened polarisation.
16.01.2019
Editorial: Crossroads
In Germany, which continued to move not only as a locomotive but as a high-speed train when the rest of the Eurozone was trailing, there are more and more voices supporting an exit from the EU, or Dexit.
15.01.2019
Tsipras, Mitsotakis cross swords in confidence vote on economy, political ethics, FYROM
Tsipras also accused New Democracy of tolerating the attacks and death threats issued by ND cadres and sent to MPs who plan to support the government.
15.01.2019
Editorial: Dispelling the fog
Economic analysts and major financial players are underlining that political uncertainty can have an exceptionally negative impact on the course of the economy.
14.01.2019
The sooner Greek elections held the better says Bloomberg
The report noted that the ratification vote on the Greece-FYROM Prespa naming agreement is what triggered the ruling coalition’s breakup.
14.01.2019
Embattled Kammenos struggles for political survival
Independent Greeks MP Thanasis Papachristopoulos, Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura, and Deputy Agriculture Minister Vasilis Kokkalis will give the government their confidence.
14.01.2019
Editorial: Countdown
The PM engaged in petty partisan bargaining with his former coalition partner in the hope of ensuring his own interests.
13.01.2019
Kammenos leaves cabinet, Tsipras scampers for parliamentary majority
Kammenos has been replaced by Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, until now Greece’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
13.01.2019
Ruling coalition collapses, Tsipras seeks confidence vote
Kammenos has been replaced as defence minister by Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, until now Greece’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
12.01.2019
Editorial: Opportunism
The climate that the PM and his junior coalition partner have cultivated is a far cry from political stability.
12.01.2019
Merkel discusses economy with entrepreneurs, executives in Athens
Participants included Hellenic Bank Association President Nikos Karamouzis, German Hellenic Chamber President Michalis Mailis, Aegean Airlines President Eftychios Vasilakis, Cosmote CEO Michael Tsamaz, and Evangelos Mytilineos.
