editorial

The agreement with the troika was good, but at some point the government’s interior must also come to an agreement. Yesterday’s dealings in...

The sense of measure and common sense are unfortunately is short supply in the Greek political scene. The completion of the prolonged negotiations with...

The agreement with the troika, following marathon discussions, signals the de facto end of uncertainty and hints towards a series of positive developments...

It was inevitable that Golden Dawn, which poisoned Greek society, would begin to unravel. The systematic investigations of Justice – along with the decisive ...

Is it possible for a light bulb to reveal all of the failures of the bureaucratic monster than defines the Greek public sector? Whoever bothered reading the story ...

While Poul Tomsen is tormenting us over here, the international markets are making different preparations and considerations. According to Greek bankers from the ...

In a country like Greece, where the rate of unemployment is nearly 30%, where working relations have collapsed, where collective labor agreements are ...

The expectations for a preliminary deal with the troika at yesterday’s Eurogroup were not confirmed, meaning that the uncertainty over the collection of the loan installment ...

The German President’s visit to our country, especially to pay his respects –albeit belatedly – at a place of martyrdom, such as Liagades, which the Nazis ...

The crisis has hit the Greek economy and people hard for the past five years. This harsh reality was greatly confirmed by the report of the Governor of...

According to an IOVE study, more than 450,000 Greeks are trying to start some sort of business. It is obvious that the crisis has motivated a significant number of young people...

The election results of the Athens Bar Association have confirmed a trend that emerged in the elections of other prominent scientific associations and union organizations. In these elections, the people and factions who can defend the interests of their professional sector are elected and chosen above those who chose to focus on their partisan allegiances […]

As much as the troika, as representative of our lenders, may have the right to inspect the progress of the implementation of our program, it should be just as much a given that we can’t have this perpetual quagmire of conflict and varying estimations. More so when a constant exchange of information has taken place, […]

Fuel smuggling has consistently been – and apparently continues to be – a scourge. The governments and ministers who came and went realized this, but the smuggling rings carried on regardless, with few and far between exceptions. The tax equation of diesel with heating oil was meant to be a litmus test. The price of […]

It is truly outrageous that after five years of this crisis, after this ever increasing depreciation of the political system and public sector officials for corruption to carry on living the life of Riley. The evidence that the president of the authority for combating money laundering Mr. Nikoloudis submitted in Parliament unfortunately indicate that there […]

The announcement for a simplification for licensing new businesses is a step in the right direction, so long as it actually happens and is not lost in bureaucratic mazes. After all, it is not the first time that such a measure has been announced only for something else to come about. We all remember the […]

It is a fact that the freedom of speech and the press were never particularly held in that high a regard by Greek judges. But at least there was the impression that preemptive censorship had been a thing of the past for many decades in our country. Now though, we have the outrageous decision of […]

After being planned for months, if not years, the much-announced plan for the abolition of 23 organizations and bodies, which could not be implemented until now, is entering its final stage. It is the first serious attempt to bring some order to the multitude of organizations that were established in the good old days so […]

The positive developments on the economic front that Mr. Stournaras alluded to over the past few days seem to be confirmed by the data regarding the execution of the 2013 budget. It is a fact that the primary surplus will be far larger that the initial estimations of the troika. The estimations of a 3.9 […]

The decision of Mr. Samaras and Mr. Venizelos to forego their privilege to appoint the order of election of MEPs and pass on the responsibility to the people – aside from all the reactions it may cause, mostly due to the surprise it caused – makes the upcoming May elections that more interesting. Regardless of […]