SYRIZA propaganda's last stand.
Though the contacts were to congratulate the incoming Greek Prime Minister, they came amidst heightened Greek-Turkish tensions in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean
If Greece is to have any hope for sustainable economic growth the lowering of the 3.5 percent of GDP primary surplust target (through 2022) is considered crucial.
Mitsotakis to a large extent made good on his electoral promise to recruit individuals without experience in government.
Mitsotakis’ chief political strategist Takis Theodorikakos, who is to a large extent credited with ND’s electoral triumph, is said to be slated as the next interior minister.
A complacent, indifferent, and anti-reform government did not concern itself with the necessary changes at the Public Power Corporation but instead focused on clientelism.
Within three years, Tsipras led a very small party to become one of the country’s top two parties, with a good shot at gaining power.
Τhe cabinet nominated Eirini Kalou as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (Areios Pagos), and Dimitra Kokotini as Chief Prosecutor.
A move to swiftly replace the leadership of the Supreme Court now entangles it in political games. It may also be motivated by the government's anxiety about the future.
The Piraeus City Council candidate and Olympiacos FC leader said that at the most critical juncture in Greece’s recent history the country had the ill fortune to be led by “uneducated kids who negotiated the country’s future”.
Main opposition New Democracy (among other parties) has long maintained that there are links between SYRIZA and anarchist groups.
One is not dealing with a small group of enraged youths but rather with a decisive and organised group which without compunction on an almost daily basis degrades institutions and the democratic system in general.
The Greek government’s statements of condemnation obviously do not address the issue, nor does a merely formal alignment of the government and the opposition suffice to confront Ankara’s provocations.
At the current start of the firefighting season all plans remain unchanged, equipment was not replaced, and the national disasters service continues to drag its feet.
Greece’s left-wing government, which constantly attacks neo-liberalism, with its excesses has reached the point of implementing an absolutely restrictive and neo-liberal agenda
The luminaries of SYRIZA have always believed that newspapers and other media are not the product of free journalists but rather should blindly follow the party line.
We seek out or manufacture enemies instead of forging a fundamental consensus so as to escape the vicious circle into which the country has fallen.
No one in the government has yet explained how Petsitis went from being a waiter with an annual salary of about 5,000 euros to representing the PM’s office in dealings with a huge state company.
Papadea said she had resigned from the management of the family business in 2015 and described the allegations against her as a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from the ongoing Novartis probe
The case was closed for lack of evidence for four of the ten politicians who were targeted and probed. The same is expected to happen for another five.