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The government is trying to keep the case in the news as a scandal even though it appears to be the biggest case of scandal-mongering of the last years.

The probe is continuing in the cases of Samaras, Stournaras, Avramopoulos, Georgiadis, and Salmas, and sources say most if not all of those files will be closed by the end of April, due to lack of evidence.

The measure involves properties which are in 'zones in which the growth of tourism is a priority.

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

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.

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.

A mysterious four-hour Athens stopover of a Venezuelan state aircraft carrying Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza on 2 March was reported by Greek SKAI television and radio today. The aircraft had taken off from Caracas and arrived in Greece without a flight plan. It had previously been denied permission to land in both Portugal and Switzerland […]

The government has no right just for the sake of keeping its hope alive to marshal means that undermine the smooth functioning of democracy.

A whopping 67 percent replied that the Prespa Agreement will greatly affect the electoral outcome.

The government agreed with creditors on high primary surpluses which it hiked even more so that it could distribute poverty benefits.

'We should go together and say in a Europe that has taken a lesson from the rise of the radical right and populist forces that such high primary surplus targets only feed into discontent.'

Extreme right-wing Chrysi Avgi places third with 8.6 percent followed by the Movement for Change (7.9 percent), and the Greek Communist Party (6.7 percent).

The government’s games with the constitutional revision undermined every effort to reach a parliamentary consensus

The fact that the provision on church-state relations was not passed by a two-thirds majority today means that it will need two-thirds to pass in the post-election Parliament.

It is impermissible for partisan criteria to take precedence over the need of the whole of society to meet the challenges of our era

The crucial political issue is that now the main opposition can deny the government the requisite enhanced majority to elect the president so as to force a general election and topple the government.

The interior minister said there will be a “technical and institutional solution” for voters who are registered in the provinces but live and vote in Attica to cast their municipal and prefectural ballots where they live.

Amending the Constitution, the basic law of the state, is supposed to be an exalted democratic process which mandates at least fundamental communication and consensus.

The leader of New Democracy called for a change in the agenda of Greece-Germany economic relations.

Businessmen and bankers believe that even in these problematic conditions Mitsotakis and a New Democracy government have the opportunity to present a contemporary and effective growth model.

'The sooner the general election is held the better, so that this degenerate situation which does not benefit the country and harms Greeks can end,' said ND's spokesperson

The report also concerns itself with Skopje’s EU course, and it calls for a roadmap for implementation and enforcement of the Prespa Accord in the longer term.

Deputy speaker, Tasia Christodoulopoulou said that from now on every bill will be put to a rollcall vote so all 16 independent MPs can speak.

'Mr. Tsipras, who characterised Maduro’s power as ‘a model that should be emulated in Europe’, is offending Greece by insisting even now on supporting him. '

The conservative leader said that if he is elected PM he will refuse to interpret Article 2 of the agreement as signaling that Greece must consent to Skopje’s EU admission.