20.03.2023
Editorial: Polakisism
Tsipras’ flirt with centrist voters lasted only a few days, as did the rebuke of the Chania, Crete, MP, who immediately unleashed new threats in the social media.
Alexis Tsipras
25.01.2023
Editorial: Political polarisation
Main opposition SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras can no longer maintain that the trial of a top party cadre by a Special Court is a conspiracy designed by his opponents.
18.09.2022
Tsipras says he wants to avoid second election with coalition based on ‘progressive’ programme
SYRIZA's leader rejected the prospect of a minority government, that would agree to the rule of the top party by either supporting or not voting down its legislation.
03.08.2022
Editorial: The death of a journalist
Stavros Psycharis was a man who had been around the block, and did not hesitate, when necessary, to soil his hands.
17.05.2022
Editorial: Political parties transforming
SYRIZA has a way to go before it transforms into a contemporary party that is in touch with the challenges of our times and not caught up in verbalism and ideological fixations.
06.05.2022
Editorial: Populism
The current major geopolitical and economic challenges have unfortunately once again brought populism to the fore in many Western societies.
20.04.2022
Editorial Ta Nea: Political capital
Party conventions should be an opportunity for a political restart and for changes that update political platforms that will be presented to the electorate.
17.02.2022
Editorial: Opportunity in centrist politics
In his interviews and public appearances, main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras declares the need to 'separate the state from the party' and talks about 'meritocratic institutions'.
31.01.2022
Editorial: Proposals
Citizens are tired of political cockfights. They seek solutions for a host of problems in their daily lives, with the pandemic and inflation topping the list.
29.01.2022
Editorial: Memory and stability
To err is human and citizens will accept an apology even if they have been trapped on Athens’ most expensive motorway for many hours in a snowstorm.
21.01.2022
Editorial: Maturation
SYRIZA presumed that with a repetition of its enraged rhetoric of 2010-2015, it could ineluctably become the alternative (to ruling New Democracy) pole in the parliamentary system.
20.09.2021
Editorial: A return to the past
Mr. Tsipras declared that, “We are the par excellence party of self-criticism.” Yet, he acknowledged no errors and offered no indication that he has abandoned his populist past.
09.10.2020
Editorial: Grey zones
Even if one accepts the contention that the left-wing government did not intentionally tailor the Criminal Code to benefit Golden Dawn, Syriza has yet to convincingly answer the charge that it was well aware of the repercussions
26.05.2020
Editorial: Opposition
'That does not mean that the opposition should not do its job, which includes tabling an alternative governmental proposal as it is a shadow government.'
13.11.2019
Editorial: Quirk
By cultivating a murky identity and wavering between populism and realism, the former PM is attempting to keep his left-wing voters while at the same time wooing disaffected centre-left and centre-right voters.
07.07.2019
Mitsotakis wins in landslide, Tsipras announces ‘dynamic opposition’
The cabinet is scheduled to be sworn in on 9 July and the first cabinet meeting is scheduled for 10 July.
03.07.2019
Expected Mitsotakis victory welcomed by FAZ as opportunity for Greece
'If he wins, Kyriakos Mitsotakis will have to grapple with everything that Alexis Tsipras omitted: An almost bankrupt Public Power Corporation, a problematic public sector, and non-performing loans,' the German daily states in a news analysis.
25.06.2019
Tsipras stresses strong EU, international backing of Greece’s sovereign rights
'Adopting tactics of escalation that lead to an impasse and are fruitless is of no use. It is not a sign of strength. It is a sign of weakness,' the PM said in response to remarks by Tayyip Erdogan.
