January 26, 2015
Politics
Sensational! Outgoing Prime Minister Antonis Samaras closed the door behind him at Maximos Mansion and left the keys under the doormat for his successor, new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. And not only that. Nobody from Samaras’ team was there to welcome the new Prime Minister. And as if this was …
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January 26, 2015
Politics
These are completely new customs and new practices launched in Greece. Alexis Tsipras sworn-in as the country’s new Prime Minister with a political oath and wearing suit but no tie. He was reportedly said recently that he would only wear a tie, when the “bailout program is gone.” Greece’s youngest …
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January 21, 2015
Economy, Politics
Two days ago, I posted a question: why the EU-partners did not support Samaras coalition government. Today Reuters comes to confirm my suspicion. That the EU-partners together with the International Monetary Fund literally pulled the carpet under Samaras’ feet by asking more austerity measures: “IMF and EU officials insisted on …
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January 19, 2015
Economy, Politics
The whole world is against a SYRIZA-led government. The Greek and international mainstream media, the EU-partners, the Draghis, the Junckers and the Lagardes, they all warn SYRIZA it has to stick to the commitments signed by Nea Dimokratia and PASOK coalition, the Papademos and the Papandreou governments. Day in, day …
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January 16, 2015
Economy
“One of the first laws to be tabled in Parliament, immediately after the election, will be one that regulates the issue raised by the developments in the Swiss Franc and the 70,000 Greek mortgage borrowers,” the press office of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said in a statement. The statement added …
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January 14, 2015
Politics
Ten o’ clock sharp Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy arrived at the office of his Greek counterpart Antonis Samaras. Οfficially the meeting is taking place in the context of bilateral relations, but Greek and Spanish media notes that the real aim of the visit is to provide support to Samaras, …
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January 11, 2015
Politics, Very Mix
A long list of world leaders have flocked to Paris on Sunday to join the crowds paying tribute to the victims of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the French policemen, the shoppers in a kosher supermarket. Atheists, Jews, Muslims: all dead by the bullets of fanatic jihadists claiming to have committed …
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December 30, 2014
Politics
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras visited the President of the Hellenic Republic Tuesday noon time for the necessary arrangements to dissolve the Parliament and proclaim early elections. “The big moment has arrived,” Karolos Papoulias reportedly told Samaras and expressed hope that “all goes well with the country.” The Prime Minister replied …
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December 29, 2014
Politics
Early elections on 25. January 2015? Greece’s EU partners are in alert and rush one after the other to bless Greek voters and the next government with advice as public opinion polls suggest that main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA will emerge as the strongest party in the January elections. After …
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December 29, 2014
Politics
The time of truth has come and the clock is ticking… The third round of voting for Greece’s next President will decide whether the coalition government of Nea Dimokratia and PASOK will stay in power or the country will head to snap elections. Sole Presidential candidate Stavros Dimas needs 180 …
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December 22, 2014
Politics
It was certainly a proposal that would have an indisputable impact: the proposal of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras who urged for consensus in the Presidential vote and indirectly promised in exchange “ministerial posts” to those MPs, who would vote for candidate Stavros Dimas. “After the presidential election, we can expand …
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December 21, 2014
Politics
In a televised address to the nation Sunday noon, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras drew the highlights of his political strategy just two day before the second round of voting for the country’s next President that is going to take place in the shadow of the MP-bribery-scandal. “Consensus on the …
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December 17, 2014
Politics
Just a few hours before the first round of Presidential voting, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras issued a statement urging MPs to vote in favor of Stavor Dimas tonight, “in order to avoid adventures for the European course of the country,” as he said it characteristically. At the same time, …
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December 15, 2014
Economy, Politics
Amid the horror Grexit-scenarios being pushed around by the Greek coalition government, the European Commission says “it is working to keep Greece firmly in the eurozone” and thus just a couple of days after EC chief Jean-Claude Juncker blatantly intervened in the Greek politics. EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici …
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December 15, 2014
Editor, Politics
Two days before the first round of voting for Greece’s next President and government officials piously grabbed the pews in the sacred church of power and televion pannels, turned on the alarm lights of the government vehicles and set up to a frenzy populism campaing full of dilemmas, panic and …
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December 12, 2014
Politics
To tell you the truth right away… I am not surprised! After five years of loan agreement with the Troika, strict austerity in the name of bailout programs and several elections, I can only stress: We, Greeks, have been there and seen that! That is that some European lender tries …
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December 9, 2014
Politics
In a televised address to the nation on Tuesday noon, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras named former EU Commissioner Stavros Dimas as the Presidential candidate. the announcement was made about an hour after Dimas had a meeting with Samaras in the Prime Minister’s office. Stavros Dimas, 73, is a center-right politician …
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December 8, 2014
Economy
Euro zone finance ministers have provisionally granted Greece a two month “technical extension” to its €245bn bailout. The Eurogroup of finance ministers said in a statement that if a series of fiscal adjustments were carried out within the two month period, the euro zone’s rescue fund – the EFSF – …
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December 8, 2014
Very Mix
Giorgos Romanos, the father of hunger-striker Nikos Romanos held a meeting with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Justice Minister Charalambos Athanasiou on Monday morning. The meeting came up after a request by Romanos parents and did not bring any solution, despite the fact that the 21-year-old convict is on the …
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December 3, 2014
Economy
E-mails land in the inboxes of the Troika and the Greek government seeking an agreement on what austerity measures the debt-ridden Greeks will have to take in order to fill the fiscal gap of 2.5 billion euro stated by the country’s international lenders EU, IMF and ECB. The latste Troika …
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