March 30, 2017
Greece, Politics
The solidarity aid system has a huge hole and grants money to those who already have it. An acting lawmaker from ruling SYRIZA received the so-called “13th pension” an extra aid for low-pensioners distributed by the government last Christmas. But the issue raises also questions about the pensions in Greece’s …
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March 27, 2017
Economy
Greek Interior Minister – an Energy minister in first SYRIZA government – Panos Skourletis accused on Monday international lenders of reneging on a 2015 bailout deal by trying to force a fire-sale of its main electricity utility Public Power Corporation (PPC/DEH) to serve “domestic and foreign business interests.” Later, a …
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March 23, 2017
Economy
The International Monetary Fund will seek assurances by Greece’s main opposition party New Democracy in case the fund decides to participate in the Greek program. In the regular briefing on Thursday, the spokesman of IMF, Gerry Rice, did not rule out assurances by the Greek opposition. Assurances mean that Greece’s …
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March 21, 2017
Greece, Politics
The online questionnaire uploaded by the Youth organization of ruling left-wing SYRIZA is theoretically a sociological research, an attempt to gather the opinion of the basic of the youth organization. However, several questions are unconventional and even rename the criminal offense of “theft” into “activism”. The questionnaire triggered an outrage …
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March 16, 2017
Greece, Politics
The office of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras categorically denied news agencies rumor reports that the PM was to announce early elections either today, Thursday, or tomorrow, Friday. The prime minister’s office described the Reuters news as “completely non-existent.” Speaking to Greek media, government sources noted that “it raises questions how …
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February 19, 2017
Politics
Wearing carnival masks, a group of some thirty people hurled molotov cocktail bombs at the headquarters of Greece’s ruling party left-wing SYRIZA at Koumoundourou Square in downtown Athens on Sunday. One police officer was injured. According to police, the group threw to or three petrol bombs that caused damages to …
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January 31, 2017
Economy
SYRIZA lawmaker and former Alternate Minister of Culture Nikos Xydakis shocked the political world and the public opinion on Tuesday morning when he implied a possible Greek withdrawal form the eurozone. Xydakis said that speaking about Drachma is a taboo and that there should be no taboos when we speak …
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January 30, 2017
Economy
A coalition lawmaker revealed on Monday that the Greek government is currently discussing the possibility of seeking a Referendum about the lenders’ demands for additional austerity measures after 2018, measures that Greece has to legislate now. Christos Simorelis, SYRIZA MP from Trikala constituency, told Radio Leshi 97.6 “Elections will take …
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January 27, 2017
Economy, Editor
The Eurogroup meeting on Thursday ended for Greece as expected: highly stubborn creditors putting immense pressure on Greece to legislate austerity measures that will be implemented in after 2018 now. The finance ministers of eurozone demand with superabundant insolence from Greece what they would never do in their own countries: to …
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December 17, 2016
Economy
The sudden suspension of Greece’s short-term debt relief measures on Wednesday evening (14 December) has sparked fierce criticism by a number of EU officials. EU commissioner Pierre Moscovici, European Parliament president Martin Schultz, French president Hollande and finance minister Michel Sapin, along with many MEPs from the GUE/NGL, S&D and …
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December 7, 2016
Society
Ruling party SYRIZA calls on Greek to join the anti-austerity strike and protest rally on Thursday. In a press release issued by the Labor Policies Department of the left-wing party, SYRIZA calls on people to join their voices “against the neo-liberal policies” and “the internal troika.” The press release speak …
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December 6, 2016
Politics
A punch under the belt: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras hand in hand with nationalists like Marie Le Pen, Nigel Farrage, the German AfD. In an article about European Populist parties, the New York Times pushes here and pulls there trying to make the two ends to the political spectrum …
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November 15, 2016
Politics
While the Greek coalition government of left-wing SYRIZA and nationalist Independent Greeks were polishing their shoes and airing their suits to welcome US President Barack Obama in Athens, an MP from SYRIZA reminded that the “Americans are responsible for fatal interventions in the Middle East in particular and the globe …
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October 17, 2016
Politics
A friend called me on Sunday morning and claimed that the atmosphere in the SYRIZA congress and the speech of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras reminded her very much of the “glorious” days of socialist PASOK and the leadership appearance of its founder Andreas Papandreou. As I was living abroad in …
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October 11, 2016
Politics
“For ANEL the connection between Orthodoxy and Hellinism is stressed in out party declaration,” Defense Minister and president of nationalist Independent Greeks (ANEL) said during an interview with a private television channel Tuesday morning. Referring to the recent crisis between SYRIZA and the Greek Orthodox Church about how the teaching …
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September 19, 2016
Politics
Greece’s political system has undermined itself in the last years as the economic crisis brought on the surface all chronic diseases of a ststem that had an expiration date. Ideologies have been abolished in a society that used to be highly politicized. Whether socialist (PASOK) or left-wings (SYRIZA) parties, they …
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September 6, 2016
Politics
Main opposition party, conservative New Democracy has gained immense support when compared to the ruling left-wing SYRIZA. In a public opinion poll conducted by the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki for private Skai TV the results are: New Democracy 27.5% SYRIZA 17.5% Golden Dawn 7.5% PASOK 5.5% KKE 5.5% Centrists’ union …
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September 5, 2016
Economy
“Greece Was the Prologue – Austerity experiments in Greece set the stage for a radical restructuring of Europe by elites.” A wise truth that we have been suspected long ago. Economist Elias Ioakimoglou, a adviser to the Institute of Labour (Greek General Confederation of Workers), describes the resultant crisis that …
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August 1, 2016
Politics
A group of anarchists stormed the cathedral in Thessaloniki and interrupted the mass on Sunday morning. They shouted insults, threw leaflets and quarreled with priests and members of the parish. The priest of the church came out to speak with the protesters who reportedly pushed him away with their hands. …
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July 27, 2016
Politics, Refugees
Greece’s ruling party SYRIZA condemned a decision of the SYRIZA-Indepenten Greeks government to have police raid and evacuate three buildings in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. The buildings were occupied by anti-authoritarians and members of Solidarity movement who had settled refugees and migrants there. “Criminalizing solidarity projects is a method that has …
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