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.
Greek Government
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Kammenos has been replaced by Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis, until now Greece’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.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.
10.01.2019
Editorial: Throwing in the towel
Yesterday it became clear that the prime minister has definitively lost the ability to call the shots with inititiatives on the political stage.
10.01.2019
Parliamentary majority hangs in the balance, snap election possible
At a crucial meeting on 11 January, junior coalition partner Panos Kammenos will make clear whether he and his party will continue to be part of the government’s parliamentary majority
09.01.2019
Mitsotakis declares Tsipras, SYRIZA a threat to democracy
'The dark face of the Tsipras administration casts a heavy shadow on our democracy because when the judiciary is used as a tool for political prosecution democracy is imperiled'.
09.01.2019
Editorial: Shadows
The SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government had raised the clean hands banner in order to use it against its political opponents, as it turns out.
07.01.2019
Editorial: Adventures
The Independent Greeks leader and the rest of the protagonists in the government’s drama forget that governments are elected to rule, not to preoccupy themselves with power plays.
04.01.2019
Editorial: Judgment
Never since the fall of the seven-year dictatorship, in 1974, have the institutions of democracy been exposed to such strong pressures from the executive.
03.01.2019
Editorial: Preconditions
Minority governments can function effectively in countries in which there is a climate of consensus and in which political culture is not betrayed by divisive rhetoric.
01.01.2019
Creditors’ visit: First enhanced fiscal surveillance review of 2019
The discussions will begin by examining the so-called “[Louka] Katselis law”, which has until now protected debtors’ primary residences (with a strict ceiling on their levels of income and assets) from foreclosure and auction.
31.12.2018
Ex-PM Simitis debunks SYRIZA success story, upbeat on EU’s future
The former premier stressed the need for a common European policy that suits the contemporary transcendence of borders and that will reflect the needs and particularities of European nations.
24.12.2018
Bulgaria rejects name ‘North Macedonia’, says there is no ‘Macedonian language’
“As President of Bulgaria, I do not agree with the name ‘Northern Macedonia’. There is no such country. That name cannot be adopted. We cannot accept that there is a ‘Macedonian language’," said Rumen Radev.
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.
28.11.2018
Simitis says government should abandon scandal-mongering and focus on Greece’s future
'The motivations of the pre-electoral period should not lead us into adventures that are analogous to what we experienced and paid for in 2015,' the ex-PM said.
26.11.2018
Editorial: The bill
By all appearances, there is an emerging current in the ruling party that favours early elections even before the local and European Parliament Parliament elections
19.11.2018
Editorial: Desecration
Acts of violence besmirch and desecrate an anniversary that should be an occasion for a democratic rallying cry, and not division.
