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Certainly, electoral planning is part of the political game, but not when everything is sacrificed on the altar of elections

The Defence Minister said that his Independent Greeks party, the junior coalition partner, will withdraw its trust in the government if the Greece-FYROM naming accord is tabled in the Greek parliament for ratification

There is even criticism of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for blocking Joseph Stalin’s efforts at the end of the 1940’s to convene a Synod of the Orthodox Churches in Moscow

Laura Cooper, the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, says Moscow is paying voters to abstain from the referendum

New Democracy MP and former foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis accused the government of “exhibiting something more than toleration” towards Rouvikonas.

There is a need to draft a national economic recovery plan, based on a minimum political consensus - that need, in the eighth year of the crisis, is dire

The exit from the program on August 20th was a major turning point. The ongoing economic recovery should help ordinary Greeks’ living conditions. As far as I can read the figures, there is no need for further fiscal tightening in Greece

The government is returning to the policies of civil service hiring and welfare benefits, implemented between 2004 and 2009, with disastrous results.

That past is too recent for the SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government not to see that unhampered promises of handouts lead to fiscal derailment and offer no political gain

Parliament Speaker Nikos Voutsis indicated that the general election will not be held before local and European Parliament elections in May

A spokesperson of the European Commission says that the only position that should be taken into account on pension cuts issue is the reply given in Latin by Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, “Pacta sunt servanda”

A government which is not ashamed and afraid when confronted with mourning shows that it has not only abandoned the concept of shame, but that it has also entered the realm of barbarism

A series of international press reports have said that thousands of people in Moria are packed together in inhuman conditions, without tents and without fundamental sanitary conditions

The petitioners requested that Muslim prayers and readings from the Quran be allowed in Hagia Sophia, which is now a museum

A broad majority in a plenary session of the European Parliament approved a resolution to support the fire-ravaged area of Mati, Attica, with EU funding

The fact that players of the Serbian national football team revolted in the middle of the Mundial against their coach, Mladen Krstajic, obviously was not news to anyone, as all the players had a single point of reference, the controversial agent Fali Ramadani, the man who found himself in the eye of the storm due to this affair.

By the end of 2019, according to press reports, 5,000 primary residences of debtors worth 150,000 euros or less will be auctioned off

It is clear that countries of the Eastern Bloc find it difficult to tolerate the values and traditions of liberal democracy. Unfortunately, the same stands true for many cadres of the Greek Left

ND's shadow foreign minister Yorgos Koumoutsakos cited Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias’ refusal to discuss pending foreign policy problems as the reason for the walk-out

Creditors also asked the government to present analytically what will be the cost of handouts announced by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras