May 22, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Leader of left-wing SYRIZA and main loser of the Sunday elections Alexis Tsipras said “I am not giving up the fight, I am here!” leader of left-wing SYRIZA and main loser of the Sunday elections Alexis Tsipras said on Monday after a meeting of the party’s Executive Office. Instead of …
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May 22, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The European Commission has called on Greek authorities to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into fresh allegations of illegal migrant deportations, stated Ylva Johansson, the EU’s Home Affairs Commissioner, on Monday. Video footage published by the New York Times on Friday shows the Greek Coast Guard rounding up asylum …
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May 22, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said that he will return a three-day mandate to form a coalition government on Monday afternoon just hours after receiving it from the president at Monday noon. There are no options for a coalition government, Mitsotakis reportedly said as he expects to secure an outright …
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May 22, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Sunday’s national elections in Greece resulted in a sweeping victory for ruling conservative New Democracy and unexpected low results for main opposition left-wing SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance, which lost all but one of 59 electoral regions in Greece. Five parties managed to pass the 3% threshold and enter the Parliament. ND-SYRIZA …
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May 21, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Polling centers in Greece closed at 7 p.m. sharp on Sunday, May 21, and the results of Exit Polls conducted in collaboration of six pollsters were released right afterward. EXIT POLLS: ND 36-40% SYR 25-29% PASOK 9.5-12.5% KKE 6-8% Greek Solution 3.5 – 5.5% MeRA25 2.5-4.5% PLEYSH 2.2-4.2% Seat projection …
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May 19, 2023
FEATURED, Politics, Refugees
Greece Says It Doesn’t Ditch Migrants at Sea. It Was Caught in the Act. Video evidence shows asylum seekers, among them young children, being rounded up, taken to sea and abandoned on a raft by the Greek Coast Guard. According to an exclusive report by New York Times: On the …
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May 18, 2023
FEATURED, Politics
New Democracy candidate and deputy minister for Labor and Social Affairs, Domna Michailidou, made an unprecedented, a truly cringe statement on Thursday. “Ιnstrumentalizing’ a personal tragedy in the worst possible way before the elections, she spoke about her father’s illness stressing that her biggest “agony” towards the terminal-ill man was …
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May 18, 2023
Greece, Politics
Leader of socialist PASOK-KINAl leader Nikos Androulakis said on Thursday he believes Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis knew about the wiretaps on his phone by the National intelligence Agency (EYP) and the efforts to infect it with the illegal spyware Predator. Asked at a day show on Alpha channel if he …
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May 18, 2023
Politics
Giorgos Katrougalos, SYRIZA MP, high-ranking part official and former Foreign Minister in Tsipras government, announced his withdrawal from the upcoming elections on May 21. 60-year-old Katrougalos who is also a jurist and professor for public law, announced his withdrawal on Thursday after stating that social contributions for self-employed may go …
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May 18, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was a passenger in the first trial operation of the Thessaloniki metro on Thursday. Worth noting that the famous and much troubled Thessaloniki metro project is not in operation yet, as it has been plagued by almost two decades of delays. But general elections are on …
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May 18, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greek state company Hellenic Defense Systems is gearing up for the local production of long-range loitering munitions by partnering with South Africa’s Paramount Group, a move aimed at strengthening the country’s indigenous manufacturing capabilities. Dubbed IRIX, the system will be the first of its kind to be produced in Greece, …
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May 16, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s ambassador in Paris has complained to the publishers of newspaper Le Monde after the daily republished a map of the Turkish election results that showed a number of Greek islands as Turkish territory. The map purports that the Greek islands of Chios, Samos, Ikaria, Kos, Ios, Amorgos and Rhodes …
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May 16, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
In working-class neighborhoods on the outskirts of Athens, Spiros Richard Hagabimana is going door-to-door in an election campaign that could see him become Greece’s first black lawmaker. It is a remarkable journey for Hagabimana, who just eight years ago was jailed in his native Burundi for refusing to open fire …
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May 16, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greeks are casting their ballots on 21 May in one of the most unpredictable national elections in years, with the formation of a new government uncertain and the leading politicians bickering over the credibility of current opinion polls that favour the ruling conservatives. Ruling conservative New Democracy has been leading …
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May 16, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
“Archaeological excavations are being carried out because underneath we have an entire state, the state of Plato, which we have covered,” Mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis said about the redevelopment in the district of the Greek capital Plato Academy. Instead of going to a bookstore or even do a google …
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May 15, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Relatives of the victims of the deadly train collision in Tempi gathered outside the office of New Democracy politician, Costas Karamanlis, who was transport Minister at the time of the tragedy. The mourning relatives who have established an association, traveled to the city of Serres on Sunday to demand Justice …
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May 15, 2023
World
Fredi Beleri, the candidate representing the Greek minority in Albania, won the municipality elections in Himara and emerged victorious over his opponent Jorgo Goro, who had the backing of the Edi Rama government. The official results were announced Monday after an earlier interruption in the vote counting process. Since Saturday …
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May 15, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Fourteen years after a debt crisis that saw Greece nearly crash out of the euro, single parent Niki Klaoudatou says she worries more about money now than she did during the worst years of the country’s economic meltdown. Ahead of an election on May 21, a cost-of-living crisis that is …
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May 15, 2023
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
President Tayyip Erdogan’s opponents face an uphill struggle to end his two-decade rule of Turkey in a runoff vote on May 28 after he performed better than predicted in a first round of voting on Sunday but fell short of an outright majority. Turks woke on Monday to see support …
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May 12, 2023
Greece, Politics
“The government’s position on war reparations and the occupation loan is clear,” government spokesman Akis Skertsos said on Friday, revoking his own statement a day earlier that the government does not look in the past but towards the future. Among others, the spokesperson said that Greece’s position on the issue …
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