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Although the European Union was organised as a post-national structure, it did not manage to transcend the nationalisms that left a deep mark on European history.

Greek Police are aware of the identity of a number of members, including a leading figure who has a Facebook account and writes on an anarchist website.

The government has not learned that the dangers of nature cannot be confronted with on-camera show conferences or with news conferences with painted wildfires,

The government fell as low as to try just a few days before elections to fool a segment of society that deserves the utmost respect – senior citizens.

Just days befor the elections the government is essentially distributing to voters shell beads and mirrors at an exorbitant cost.

The spectacle of the inauguration of non-existent infrastructure is not only an offence to the citizens of Thessaloniki.

After the electoral benefit, which the government dubbed “13th [monthly] pension", it handed out an extraordinary benefit to prison guards, employees of auditing organs, and coroners.

The reality is that all too many households in the country are still experiencing the harsh impact of the crisis.

It is unprecedented for mayoral candidates to reject the support of a party and completely dissociate themselves from it, as is now the case with SYRIZA. It is yet another indication from cadres who are in close contact with local communities that citizens have completely turned their backs on the ruling party. There is no […]

Then public order minister Nikos Toskas said today the PM had not been informed of the deaths because they had not been “officially confirmed” and that authorities were focusing on saving the living.

Tsipras first threw down the gauntlet in Parliament and today SYRIZA spokesperson Rania Svigou reissued the invitation in a letter to New Democracy spokesperson Maria Zacharaki.

The government should at long last show some recognition towards those parties that backed it in passing the third bailout memorandum in the summer of 2015 so as to keep the country from falling off a cliff.

Now the electoral victory of the socialists in Spain and the trouncing of the right-wing People’s Party are being exploited ahead of the upcoming electoral races in Greece.

The IMF has said that aside from fiscal considerations the lowering of the tax-free threshold must go forward in other to allow the lowering of the very high taxes on labour and businesses.

The crime of establishing a criminal organisation which is now a felony will become a misdemeanor and so prosecution of such cases will be halted and those imprisoned for that crime will be released.

Until a few years ago, PPC’s pricing contributed to the competitiveness of the Greek economy. Its results were based on specific principles and good management which was universally recognised.

Opponents of the move toward the centre say it will damage the party’s popularity among left-wing voters which were its base when it was garnering only four or five percent of the popular vote

With the cards stacked against them, none of the initiatives that the PM and his government take suffice to turn the game around.

At the same time, New Democracy cadres have repeatedly referred to PM Alexis Tsipras as the obedient lapdog of Berlin.

The government’s sole concern is to survive politically, even when its members flout the basic principles of humanism and engage in reprehensible behaviour that offends the essence of the human person.

PM Alexis Tsipras said he will turn the no confidence motion against the alternate health minister into a confidence vote for the government.

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.

The aim of the provision – which was withdrawn after an opposition outcry – was to allow businesses which had had violated the law to be eligible for funding from investment programmes.

Asked about Tsipras’ populism, he said that the government’s efforts to interfere in institutions are doomed to failure simply because, as he believes, it will lose the forthcoming general election.