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This government pledged much that it did not do and did much that it had not told us about. Still, one cannot but note its obsession with the sterile policy of benefits and pledges to everyone, with zero results.

The government has shaped an artificial reality in order to boast of its achievement even as the economy totters.

Between 2012 and 2014 the opposition SYRIZA party started directly demanding that centre-left media and especially those belonging to DOL offer favourable coverage of the party.

It is a dishonour for any politician to invoke a law that protects ministers from prosecution by requiring that Parliament lift his or her parliamentary immunity.

Everyone knows by now that the politician who is in the tightest embrace with vested interests is Mr. Tsipras himself.

Greece is perhaps the only European country where political life literally paralyses before an election. The state lacks continuity and is managed in piecemeal fashion. The state machine freezes with a view to the upcoming political transition.

The statue was placed on display in the National Gallery in 1992 in a Pappas retrospective exhibition – at the start of the Macedonian naming crisis - and not long afterwards it was purchased by the Greek state and began a labyrithine journey.

Instead of fixing the fiscal roof, the government is preoccupied with handing out benefits, providing arrangements for debt repayment, and offering a write-down on home loans

Day by day it becomes increasingly obvious that the Greek Novartis scandal is just what it is in other countries – a medical and not a political scandal. The company itself has admitted the medical scandal.

The education minister is not merely copying the practices of the past. He is inaugurating a new type of old party politics that does not bode well for Greece’s problematic education system.

As time passes, the general consensus is that government-backed candidates will be trounced and in most cases will not make it into the second round.

SYRIZA once screamed with righteous indignation when two university students in 2013 lost their lives - from a fire caused by a coal-burning heater as their electricity had been cut off – but no one was moved by the death yesterday of a 38-year-old man killed in a fire caused by candles

The Bank of Greece rang the alarm bells over the danger of fiscal derailment due to Greece’s Council of State rulings which deemed unconstitutional earlier pension cuts and the abolition of holiday bonuses.

Essentially, the PM’s team is entertaining the idea of small, manageable clashes with creditors that can be easily resolved with a minor governmental retreat.

Citizens do not forget that it was the ruling party, SYRIZA, which while in the opposition encouraged incidents at parades, the worst of which was the jeering of then president Karolos Papoulias.

That is perhaps the greatest problem of the ruling party. It can no longer stir the masses or revive expectations.

Europe as a whole should be concerned, as should Greece in particular which is a country that brings in tourists and exports university students and young scientists

Despite the rosy image of the economic situation that the government is presenting, the fact is that the revenues of a segment of the population are shrinking.

Government leaks over many months about the jailing of suspects, bank accounts abroad, and the bribery of politicians which will blow the political system out of the water all proved to be nonsense.

Citizens, businessmen, and the work force are not offered solutions to their problems because the government adopts opportunistic policies.

According to data provided by Greek banks, the unpaid portion of about 70 percent of home loans for the purchase of a primary residence is less than 100,000 euros, whereas the unpaid portion of 85 percent of non-performing loans is on average 150,000 euros.

has a duty to make a clear commitment to guarantee the voting rights of citizens abroad and to abandon its thoughts of having a diaspora citizen’s vote count less

Progress was always a collective affair, and one must not forget this as our country strives to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

The proposed changes will also loosen the requirements for the release of prisoners serving multiple life sentences, such as the members of the notorious and now defunct N17 terrorist organisation.

The government exempted the Onassis Foundation and enterprises associated with it from the Special Real Estate Tax, which represents 15 percent of the tax valuation of a property.