Press Review May 27: Cabinet reshuffle imminent
Alexis Tsipras calls for early general elections and attempts to put roadblocks in government’s path; a cabinet reshuffle and tax reductions are expected soon; PASOK expected to change electoral law;…
Alexis Tsipras calls for early general elections and attempts to put roadblocks in government’s path; a cabinet reshuffle and tax reductions are expected soon; PASOK expected to change electoral law;…
Alexis Tsipras’s SYRIZA emerges as the victor of the European elections but without a wide enough majority to trigger snap elections; PASOK performs better than expected, PM Antonis Samaras talks…
Alexis Tsipras says not all Golden Dawn voters are neo-nazis; New Democracy and PASOK accuse the opposition leader of ‘flirting’ with the neo-nazi party, others accuse the government of double…
Candidates secretly court Golden Dawn voters; Samaras promises 770,000 new jobs; SYRIZA accuses Samaras of being delusional; foreign banks warn over the ‘shock’ to the markets of a SYRIZA win;…
Thessaloniki gives a resounding ‘no’ in referendum over water privatization; parties analyze the results of Sunday’s elections and attempt to adapt their strategies; anti Skouries goldmine campaigners celebrate the defeat…
Both New Democracy and SYRIZA loudly claim victory and quietly lick their wounds. Success for the opposition party in Attica in regional and mayoral elections. New Democracy suffers defeat in…
The first contracts for oil and natural gas drilling are signed; the government’s ‘white flag’ over the coastal bill is a pre-election ploy; the ECB plans to inject liquidity into…
A Financial Times article reveals how the EU ‘manufactured’ the government it wanted in Greece; the supreme court reveals Golden Dawn’s secret ‘pogroms’ in Athens; the revenue service is to…
Parties enter final straight to the polls; 7 out of 10 Greeks are unhappy; the troika is to demand more austerity; The Finance Ministry’s bill allowing for the privatization of…
The IMF fears ‘political instability’; oil drilling contracts for western Greece are being finalized; the government is looking to sweep aside long-standing zoning regulations in the interest of business profits;…