In an interview with Vasiliki Siouti, Costas Lapavitsas, professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of London and an early evangelist in favour of a…
Early on in its rule, New Democracy appears to have been playing a double game with the extremists, condemning them in public but privately seeing them as useful. Only after…
According to the logic of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, justice officials, soldiers and police officers are the, “most vulnerable social groups hit by the Memorandum.” That conclusion comes from his…
Antonis Samaras appears to be losing favour with the German leadership which is concerned that he is ‘slipping back’ into populism. While there is no immediate intention to question his…
For a decade officials have known about the scandal of the International Mine Initiative (IMI) – the NGO believed to have embezzled millions of euros provided for demining operations. But…
Samaras and Venizelos’s optimism is contradicted by statements from German officials implying that Greece will need another round of bailout loans. Influential German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine also sets a harsh…
A month after the Golden Dawn crackdown, Yiannis Mavris, prominent pollster and analyst, discusses the endemic maladies in the political system that allowed Neonazism to take center stage, and what…