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It is indicative that after the government was sworn in, the first two conferences dealt with the faltering Public Power Corporation (PPC) and the huge issue of non-performing loans (NPLs).

SYRIZA propaganda's last stand.

Though the contacts were to congratulate the incoming Greek Prime Minister, they came amidst heightened Greek-Turkish tensions in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean

If Greece is to have any hope for sustainable economic growth the lowering of the 3.5 percent of GDP primary surplust target (through 2022) is considered crucial.

The European Council on 20 June had called on the European Commission to come up with a list of possible sanctions against Turkey over its violations of Cyprus’ sovereignty and issued the sternest warning to Ankara yet

Mitsotakis to a large extent made good on his electoral promise to recruit individuals without experience in government.

Dendias took office even as Ankara prepared to begin illegal oil and gas drilling in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone(EEZ) off the Karpas peninsula, which has been Turkish-occupied since 1974.

Christos Staikouras, a former alternate economy minister under ND PM Antonis Samaras, will be Greece’s new finance minister in the cabinet of incoming PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, which was announced late this afternoon, less than 24 hours afte Mitsotakis’ landslide victory, and veteran connservative MP Nilos Dendias will be Greece’s new foreign minister. The names of […]

The analysis stresses the challenges Mitsotakis has and will face in aligning old-style conservative ND with his modern, liberal agenda.

Yesterday’s elections brought to a close a cycle of governance during which shilly-shallying on a series of crucial decisions and reforms was the order of the day.

Immediately after the ceremony Mitsotakis walked to the PM’s Maximos Mansion offices next door, where he was greeted at the entrance by outgoing PM Alexis Tsipras.

Mitsotakis’ chief political strategist Takis Theodorikakos, who is to a large extent credited with ND’s electoral triumph, is said to be slated as the next interior minister.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he had a clear mandate for change, pledging more investments and fewer taxes.

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to be sworn in as Prime Minister by President Prokopis Pavlopoulos at the Presidential Mansion at 1pm tomorrow, 8 July.

The safe conclusion is that in difficult conditions two-party hegemony is bolstered and citizens adopt a stark white-black perspective - even if they realise that the complexity of problems and conditions do not permit such an approach.

'It is a day that takes us away from lies, hypocrisy, hatred, from a sell-out of our country, of national treachery, and all that which kept us back and has placed us and our children in debt for the coming years,' Marinakis said.

Vangelis Marinakis, owner of Olympiacos FC, sent a unity message with regards to today’s general elections in Greece.

Over the last days Mitsotakis has been repeating the mantra that no one will be laid off from the civil service, that pensions and auxiliary pensions will not be cut, that no social benefits will be cut, and that he will strictly enforce labour law

As many ideological blinders as they may have, those who want a muzzled press in fact dream of and admire fascist regimes.

In the 26 May European Parliament elections New Democracy garnered 27.2 percent of the vote in that age bracket compared to SYRIZA’s 25.3 percent.