Elections winner and conservative New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis paid a visit to the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou in order to receive the mandate to form a government. “It is a special honour to receive this mandate to form a government with a four-year horizon,” Mitsotakis said …
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Election rallies end Friday, parties pledge for Greeks’ prosperity
Friday, June 23, is the last day political parties rally for entrance and/or a high number of seats in the Greek Parliament ahead of the election on Sunday. Opinion polls show former Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservative New Democracy party winning by a wide margin of more than 20% over …
Read More »Mitsotakis rules out joint Greek-Turkish exploitation of energy resources in the Aegean
If Turkey wishes to come closer to Europe and open itself to the West, Greek-Turkish dialog must resume, New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview to ANT1 on Wednesday. The dialog will concern “a single and only difference [between us], that is the delimitation of the Exclusive Economic …
Read More »Muslim ND candidate withdraws from election race after alleged intel report
Mustafa Katranci, a parliamentary candidate for conservative New Democracy from the Rhodope province in northeastern Greece, announced on Monday he was withdrawing from the electoral race, after the main opposition claimed that his name was included in an intelligence report citing his alleged links to the Turkish Consulate in Komotini. …
Read More »ND voters welcome Mitsotakis with a “Messiah” fiesta (video)
It could have been a joke, but it’s not. With laurels, cheers and carnation banners, voters of New Democracy in Patras, prepared a special “Messiah” welcome fiesta for Kyriakos Mitsotakis, something we have never seen again after Jesus arrived in Jerusalem on a donkey and was welcomed by a cheering …
Read More »Shipwreck: Desperate relatives seek for their beloved ones in Greece
With pictures on their mobiles or at hand, relatives and friends are desperately searching among the fishing boat survivors for their beloved ones. They have traveled from several countries to Greece to seek for their people with whom they lost contact since Wednesday, June 16, when the fishing boat capsized …
Read More »Greece declares 3-day mourning for the shipwreck victims (latest info)
Greece’s caretaker Prime Minister Ioannis Sarmas declared a three-day national mourning for the dozens of victims of the shipwreck, 47 nautical miles south of Peloponnese, early morning Wednesday. By 9 p.m. Wednesday, the death toll has reached 79 bodies have been recovered and 104 people have been rescued. Dozens of …
Read More »Tax evasion in Greece exceeds €60 billion annually, BoG governor says
Tax evasion in Greece exceeds 60 billion euros annually, governor of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, said on Monday. € In interview with news website in.gr, the central banker said incomes officially declared in the country totaled 80 billion euros, while consumption totaled 140 billion euros. He noted that …
Read More »Mitsotakis to create a Family Ministry; Pro-Life Dystopia coming to Greece?
New Democracy leader and aspiring next prime minister of Greece, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, announced the creation of a Family Ministry once he win the upcoming elections and manages to form a single party government. His plan was met with outrage by parts of the Greek society. Speaking to Skai TV on …
Read More »With new “digital weapon” Greece will combat tax evasion on the islands
Greece’s Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) is preparing to step up the war on tax evasion this summer by enlisting the aid of a new digital “weapon” dubbed “ELEGXOSLive”, in hopes of boosting tax compliance on Greek islands and other tourist areas. The digital app will allow on-the-spot access …
Read More »ND candidate proposes “triage” for terminal cancer patients (UPD)
New Democracy candidate and Medical professor Spyros Pneumatikos considers terminal cancer patients as a big financial burden for the national health care system and proposed a “triage”, that is sorting out cancer patients in the logic of “cost-benefit ratio.” who are fighting tooth and nail for their lives as a …
Read More »New Democracy: VAT reduction in food will benefit the wealthy
Also ahead of the June 25 elections, New Democracy insists that any Value Added Tax (VAT) reduction in food and other basic items will primarily benefit the wealthy and therefore there is no point in implementing it. This attitude was initially promoted during the ND governance, when prices in supermarkets …
Read More »Mitsotakis infected with Covid-19, cancels visit to Mt. Athos
New Democracy leader and former prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been infected with Covid-19 and cancelled a visit to the monks Republic on Mt Athos. It is the second time, Mitsotakis is infected with Covid-19. The first time it was in March 2022 when he was test-positive after a meeting …
Read More »Erdogan secures another 5 years as Turkey’s President
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan cemented his place in Turkish politics as the longest-serving leader with a runoff victory on Sunday against Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu As millions held their breath in the first runoff he faced, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan left his mark in the history of the Republic of Türkiye with another …
Read More »MP for a day: 300 lawmakers sworn in on Sunday, Parliament to be dissolved on Monday
MP for one day: 300 deputies elected to Parliament in the May 21 general elections were sworn in on Sunday, in the presence of President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou. Their term will be extremely short, however, as the present Parliament will be dissolved by presidential decree on Monday, …
Read More »Tourists “besiege” the Acropolis; calls for immediate measures (POLL)
Thousands of tourists “besiege” the Acropolis of Athens on daily basis even though the high season for tourism is not at its peak – yet. Thousands of tourists rush to admire the archaeological magnificence of the Acropolis under unimaginable suffering: The dangers for themselves, for the monument and the works …
Read More »Moody’s: New ND gov’t in Greece will be ‘credit positive’, lead to ‘large debt reduction’
New Democracy’s strong results in last Sunday’s elections significantly increase the chance that it will form a government after the repeat elections to be held at the end of June, Moody’s credit rating agency noted on Thursday. This means that there will be continuity in fiscal and economic policy and …
Read More »Ioannis Sarmas sworn in caretaker Prime Minister; Greece’s new cabinet
Court of Audit President Ioannis Sarmas was sworn in as prime minister of a caretaker government that will lead Greece to the second round of elections on June 25. Shortly after 4 o’ clock Thursday afternoon, 66-year-old Sarmas was sworn in at the Presidential Mansion in the presence of President …
Read More »EU Commission: Fiscal policy recommendations for Greece
Greece continues to experience excessive imbalances but its vulnerabilities appear to be receding due to policy progress, according to fiscal policy recommendations given by the European Commission in the context of the European Semester. The European Commission recommends that Greece: Wind down the energy support measures in force by the …
Read More »Greek pollsters claim wrong “polls” due to SYRIZA pressure
For one more time. Greek pollsters failed to catch the voters’ pulse ahead of general elections on May 21 and did not come even close to the 21% difference between ruling New Democracy and main opposition SYRIZA. In an effort to justify the unjustifiable, that is they “misled clients and …
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