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The Novartis affair has evolved into a major issue involving an institutional aberration and a departure from democratic normalcy. It emerged as a result of audits of the multi-national Swiss pharmaceuticals company by US authorities, which are sensitive about issues of exceedingly rapid entrepreneurial growth and of competition. Needless to say, Novartis over recent years […]

The judiciary will judge without bending to the threats of the executive power, and it will judge even its own functionaries who may have betrayed their mission.

'Today’s picture of clashing views does not justify disputing the evolutionary path of European cooperation.'

The American Embassy has been exceptionally friendly toward the current government, especially during the last two years, with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ turn toward Washington. 

“As President of Bulgaria, I do not agree with the name ‘Northern Macedonia’. There is no such country. That name cannot be adopted." said Rumen Radev.

The more handouts the government announces the more the main opposition party’s lead in the polls is grows.

The leadership and members of SYRIZA indiscriminately and unabashedly depicted their political opponents as either traitors or thieves.

Academic freedom is of vital importance for the free exchange of ideas and knowledge, but it cannot exist in an environment of fear and terror.

The targeting of the media was and is the foundation of the PM’s political career. Like many other populist leaders, it was and is his fervent desire to control and subjugate the press.

With non-papers and official statements it expresses its views on a wide variety of issues, often with language not befitting the office that he holds.

The PM accused the media (including this newspaper) of scare-mongering and stirring fear when he was seeking power .

Why did the PM hasten to express an opinion on a judicial case that is still under investigation? Who were the people who did not shield him from such an embarrassment?

For electoral reasons, the government pretends that the country that has left behind the economic crisis, when it is abundantly clear that it is still very much with us.

Woe to the country if it expects that pensions and benefits will bring higher growth rates, as the government maintains.

'The motivations of the pre-electoral period should not lead us into adventures that are analogous to what we experienced and paid for in 2015,' Simitis stated,

There is an emerging current in the ruling party that favours early elections, even before the local and European Parliament elections in May.

The finance ministry believes that the large cash reserves even under the most conservative assessment are sufficient to cover its mixed funding needs at least for the next two years.

The projections for 2019 point to a general government surplus of 3.98 percent, as compared to the 3.5 percent target.

What most who are today are demanding back their lost income forget is that the group that has been hit hardest is private sector employees (especially youths, who receive starvation salaries), and not pensioners and civil servants.

Acts of violence do not honour those killed during the Polytechnic uprising. Instead, they besmirch and desecrate an anniversary that should be an occasion for a democratic rallying cry.

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.

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.   

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.

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.