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Political parties’ loans (mainly Pasok and New Democracy) are the next objective of the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government, after the targeting of former prime minister Costas Simitis.

Ankara intends to submit the issue to the UN Security Council, as if it were Greece and not Turkey that is violating international law.

the final state budget will be drafted without a provision for pension cuts, given the fact that a projection of a 3.5% primary surplus in 2019 was ensured.

The criminalisation of political life will not cease., as all means will be marshaled in what the government views as a battle to the bitter end, and without rules.   

We are entering a pre-electoral period in which sensationalism, demagoguery, and mudslinging will predominate.

'The pre-announced operation to prosecute me does not touch me. History is not written by fleeting occupants of the executive authority. Obviously, the examination of my bank accounts is welcome. I have nothing to hide,' Simitis said.

As is its wont, the government is handling the amendment process as a communications and political diversionary tactic, which aims to cause problems for the opposition.

'We tell our friends the necessary words – don’t pressure us and don’t put us in a tight spot. That is the only way that mutual trust can develop,' Erdogan said

The initial information has led Greek Police to draw comparisons with previous strikes by the Cells of Fire Conspiracy

The government tolerates violence even in the offices of ministers and courtrooms, because it believes it is thus ensuring tolerance toward itself

Mr. Tsipras now recognises in a meaaly-mouthed manner what was maintained by many – including this newspaper – that bailout memorandums cannot be abolished overnight, nor is a rupture in relations with Europe an option.

The report states there were many instances of obvious irregularities and violations and concluded that 'a further investigation of the pricing of diagnostic arthroscopy is required'.

'Few are receiving the unemployment benefit and the stipend for the long-term unemployed, as they do not meet the preconditions,” said the head of the OAED unemployment bureau

It appears that Tsipras' political reversals – or kolotoumba as the international press called it, borrowing the original Greek) are the basic characteristics of the SYRIZA leader’s political path.

For the government, the end justifies the means, and everything is placed at the disposal of the general directorate, in order to avert the impending handover of power.

What will happen in the event of a collapse of Italy, the GDP of which is ten times that of Greece’s, and the debt of which was 6.5 times greater in 2011?

“I will support “Piraeus Victorious” with all my might. I will be with you on the road to making our city as we envision it, after the major projects that we have completed and advanced. We are going into a new, big battle for Piraeus and I am sure that we will emerge victorious.”

'He has learned nothing from the crisis or from his lies, which he dubbed ‘self-deceptions’. He had the audacity to promise 10,000 new civil service positions to be paid for by citizens whom he has brought to their knees through taxes and insurance contributions.

The report puts Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras squarely in the picture of the group’s impunity, indicating that toleration of the group aims to resuscitate SYRIZA’s lost left-wing credentials, battered by innumerable neo-liberal austerity measures imposed by Greece’s creditors.

The ever mounting concerns that one is beginning to see in Brussels demonstrate that the government is moving in an ominous direction.