North Macedonia's Ambassador Rusi Popovska referred to Alexis Tsipras’ forthcoming trip to Skopje by saying, “Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is going to visit Macedonia, and it is the first visit of a Greek prime minister to our country.”
The world is changing, labour relations have turned topsy turvy, and jobs are being lost, but trade unionists in their minds are stuck in the good old days.
Authorities are attempting to glean information about what contacts he may have had in Athens and where he may have learned the Greek word turkofagos (Turk-eater).
Russia and Turkey were the staunchest opponents internationally of the Greece-North Macedonia Prespa Agreement.
'You will never be able to turn Istanbul into Constantinople. We have been here for 1,000 years. Whoever tries to remove us from here will leave in a casket.'
Sener Levent's new Jasmine Movement will run with its own exclusively Turkish-Cypriot ticket in May’s European Parliament.
The government of Mr Tsipras wanted To Vima and Ta Nea as propaganda tools in its hands, the booty and symbol of occupation of the broader democratic part of the political spectrum.
The US State Department has announced that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be attending the upcoming three-way Cyprus-Greece-Israel summit at which the Eastern Mediterranean Pipeline (EastMed) agreement is scheduled to be signed. The summit will focus on energy, military, and broader regional cooperation. “The rest of the Eastern Med is moving forward in exploring […]
The ruling majority insisted on a series of demagogic and populist proposed amendments supposedly in the name of participatory democracy.
New Democracy proposes that an enhanced majority be required in the first two votes in Parliament and if that is not achieved then Parliament would elect the President with an absolute, one-vote majority.
While the report notes the Tsipras government’s social spending and feverish efforts to argue that the country has returned to a period of normalcy, interviewees painted quite another picture.
Tsipras again defended his move to introduce direct proportional representation, as well as SYRIZA’s proposal for popular election of the President of the Republic when there is a deadlock in Parliament.
Vryonis proved with incontrovertible historical documentation that the pogrom that destroyed the Greek minority was a state-designed and executed plan with the active participation of Turkish Prime Minister Adnan Menderes and his Demokrat Parti.
SYRIZA MPs know that about half of them will not manage to be re-elected and that they will be watching the proceedings in the chamber on the Parliament Television Channel.
That fiscal surveillance is expected to greatly expand with the establishment of electronic files including all the assets, moveable and real estate, of approximately 8.5mn taxpayers nationwide.
Planned changes to the criminal code has stirred an uproar as it allows for shorter sentences for those involved in a criminal organisation – which is the charge that the extreme right Golden Dawn party is being tried on
The IMF was primarily concerned with the threat to the economy posed by the pre-election period, which could reverse measures taken until now.
The culprits tore down the LGBTQ rainbow flag on the balcony, from which they gained access to the offices and set the fire with gasoline.
Polakis threatened the country’s central banker that he would stage a sit-in in his office if he did not order a probe of other loans take out by other politicians and political parties.
The issue arose when Culture Minister Mrysini Zorba asked Varotsos about the prospect of such an exchange and the artist categorically rejected the idea.