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Greece
ND Chief Mitsotakis: "Society Demands Greece to be a Normal Country"
"Society demands that Greece becomes a normal country," Kyriakos Mitsotakis said addressing the New Democracy Parliamentary Group on Wednesday, criticizing the SYRIZA-ANEL administration.
"(Greek) citizens are calling for political change and they want the SYRIZA-ANEL government to leave as soon...
Greece
Anti-Austerity Government Celebrates Austerity Measures
Alexis Tsipras and his cabinet always find something to celebrate. From unfinished highways and under-equipped hospitals they inaugurate with aplomb worthy of banana republic dictators, to paltry handouts to pensioners after they had them drained with pension cuts. Oblivious...
Economy
Former PM Simitis: Elections the Only Solution for Greece
Former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis said on Tuesday that the only solution for Greece's problems in the current state of things is early elections.
In his first television interview in 13 years, the former PASOK leader who was in...
Crime
SYRIZA-ANEL Coalition Proposes Parliamentary Investigation of Former Minister Papantoniou
The two parties in Greece's ruling coalition, SYRIZA and ANEL, on Friday tabled a joint proposal for a special Parliamentary committee to conduct a preliminary investigation into former minister Yiannos Papantoniou, focusing on armament programs carried out while he...
Greece
What the SYRIZA Government Promised and Never Delivered to Greek People
It was exactly two years ago when Alexis Tsipras became the youngest and first leftist prime minister of Greece, an event that filled the 2.25 million Greeks who voted for him with optimism because of his grandiose promises and...
Economy
ND: Taxes and Pension Cuts are Tsipras’ New Year’s Gifts
The government is ushering in the New Year with more tax hikes and pension and wage cuts for Greeks, New Democracy said in a press release on Monday, referring to the new set of consumption and special taxes which...
Greece
Nine in Ten Greeks are Dissatisfied With Government's Performance
Nine out of ten Greeks express their dissatisfaction with the Greek government, believing that the country is moving in the wrong direction, according to a Public Issue survey in November.
Specifically, 92% of participants are dissatisfied with the government's performance,...
Economy
ND's Staikouras Not Ruling Out Possibility of Early Elections
The program review of September will be difficult, coordinator of economic affairs, Christos Staikouras of the New Democracy (ND) party said to ANA-MPA.
ND, the main opposition of the SYRIZA-ANEL government also commented during his interview with the ANA-MPA that...
Greece
Opposition Party Campaigns for Right to Vote of Greeks Living Abroad
An initiative calling on the Greek government to allow Greeks living abroad to vote has been launched by opposition party To Potami.
"The campaign #EimaiKaiGoEdo (I Am Here Too) by To Potami has started. With the initiative of the party...
Greece
Hope Has Turned to Despair One Year After Syriza’s Historic Rise to Power
“Hope begins today” was the message that the current Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sent to the Greek people when his Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party won the national elections held a year ago, on January 25th...