Electoral Pledges

Editorial: A return to the past
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.

Editorial: Youth
10.06.2019

Editorial: Youth

No other government promised so much only to break one after another of the pledges that it handed out right and left.

Editorial: Horizons
01.04.2019

Editorial: Horizons

The electoral horizon can be measured by opinion polls but also by the results of the European Parliament election in May.

Editorial: Raising the bar
24.12.2018

Editorial: Raising the bar

The SYRIZA-Independent Greeks coalition is rushing to make citizens believe that the country is returning to normalcy and that due to its goodness it is handing out money and hiring pledges right and left.

Editorial: Stragglers
17.12.2018

Editorial: Stragglers

Greece will stay at the tail end of eurozone states, and Greeks who are in the lower economic brackets of salaried employees will remain the poor relatives in the family.

Editorial: Adages
13.12.2018

Editorial: Adages

Those parties which were condemned by the government as constituting the “old” political system left their old bad habits behind, and the “new regime” copied all those habits in a bid to ensure its political survival.

Editorial: Illusions
01.12.2018

Editorial: Illusions

It would be a potentially fatal error for society to believe that the economy is back on track. In fact, there is a long road ahead.

Editorial: Narrative
29.11.2018

Editorial: Narrative

The problem is the PM's untrammeled pledges of handouts, the en masse civil service hiring, and the salary hikes for those affiliated with the ruling party.

Editorial: Imperative
05.10.2018

Editorial: Imperative

Theodoros Fessas, the head of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises, underlined that “All politicians, on both sides [the two largest political parties] are distributing money which does not exist,” he said.

Editorial: Pledges of handouts
16.09.2018

Editorial: Pledges of handouts

The government is returning to the policies of civil service hiring and welfare benefits, implemented between 2004 and 2009, with disastrous results.

Editorial: Illusions
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.

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