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10.09.2018

SYRIZA-US relations: Trilateral diplomacy, the Balkans, energy

Energy is the critical factor in US plans to detach the Balkan countries from the Russian energy vice

10.09.2018

Tighter defence cooperation with the US and the role of Souda

It seems that radical Greek governments favour, after an initial “pubescent rebelliousness”, closer ties with the US than conservative ones

09.09.2018

How Tsipras, SYRIZA became best friends with the Americans

The strategic cooperation of the two sides is now very deep. Athens has entirely embraced the “US energy doctrine”, which seeks to isolate Russia.

08.09.2018

Editorial: Temptations

Pledges of handouts, for which the country has paid dearly in the past, should end at the very place where they began, the Thessaloniki International

07.09.2018

Growing US-Greece military, economic ties stressed by Geoffrey Pyatt, as US is honoured country at TIF

'We are going to see presentations from top US companies at TIF this year, including major sponsors like Microsoft, Google, CocaCola, Cisco, Visa, IBM, Intralot, Pfizer, and Hewlett-Packard, highlighting the theme '"Harnessing the Power of Innovation and Creativity”, said the US Ambassador

07.09.2018

Editorial: Illusions

Greek citizens know what the post-bailout reality is. They are absolutely cognizant of the fact that that there will be a long, uphill road.

06.09.2018

Overwhelming majority of Greeks believe austerity is here to stay

From the overall findings of a recent survey, one can safely conclude that the end of memorandums does not signal a transition to a new era, mainly because the country’s existing commitments to creditors remain in effect.

06.09.2018

Editorial: Dances

Let the PM do what is necessary to regain the trust of creditors and investors, with the knowledge that this will not include drums and packages of handouts

06.09.2018

Tsipras’ largesse with handouts pledges driving up borrowing interest rates

The economic team is costing the measures to be included in a basket of handouts. It appears, however, that the focus of the transition to the post-bailout memorandum era will be pro-labour reforms of labour relations.

05.09.2018

Nato’s Stoltenberg to brief Tsipras on FYROM’s Nato accession process

The approval and implementation of the Greece-FYROM naming agreement is a necessary condition for FYROM to be admitted to Nato and to start accession talks with the EU.

05.09.2018

Editorial: Performance

The prime minister apparently believes that with communications shows, a tragic event will cease being tragic

04.09.2018

Supreme US, Greek military leaders meet in Athens amidst crisis in US-Turkey relations

The fact that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is visiting Greece in a period in which US-Turkey relations have reached their nadir, naturally without a stopover in Turkey, has been viewed by some as another clear message to Ankara.

04.09.2018

Editorial: On unimpeachability

The planned changes feed suspicions that there will be an undermining of a major achievement of the university entry exam system, which one finds nowhere else in the public sphere, the unimpeachability of the process.

03.09.2018

Editorial: Anniversary

Forty-four years ago today, in 1974, a politician who left his imprint on the post-dictatorship history of Greece, Andreas Papandreou, founded the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok).

03.09.2018

Charges of government cover-up of Mati wildfire administrative responsibilities

Former Fire Service deputy chief Andrianos Gourbatsis has sent an open letter to Citizen’s Protection Minister Olga Gerovasili and Deputy Minister Katerina Papakosta requesting that the ministry launch an administrative investigation of the Mati wildfire.