SYRIZA government

More than 20,000 applications were submitted for 4,442 places in the 2023-2024 academic year at Greece's public model and experimental schools, an old institution expanded in 2011, all but abolished by the leftist-led SYRIZA government in 2015, and reinstated by center-right New Democracy in 2019.

Giorgos Houliarakis was perhaps the most popular member of the SYRIZA government among his European Union peers. He was one of the very few people who focused on the real numbers of the economy and realistic data.

Greece is officially heading to elections on May 21st. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made the much anticipated announcement on Tuesday, officially kicking off the campaign season. Mitsotakis has called on Greeks to compare his administration with the previous Syriza government in terms of its handling of the economy, foreign policy, and Greece's image abroad.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced at a cabinet meeting Tuesday that the next election will take place on May 21.

The announcement had been expected; initially, the government was planning on an April date, before the deadly train crash on February 28 upended the plans.

So much controversy has been stirred by a recent event titled "Are We Staying in Europe? Wiretaps, Rights and Rule of Law," that the discussion about it actually began before it even took place.

By George Gilson

With the prospect of single-party rule or the formation of a viable coalition government weakened by the EYP surveillance scandal, rampant rumours that have circulated for months that the government may change the electoral law to to lower the threshold for  the top party up to a 50-seat-bonus have been rekindled.

The former chief of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), Panagiotis Kontoleon and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' ex-chief of staff, Grigoris Dimitriadis, refused to answer questions of MPs on EYP's wiretapping of PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis at a hearing held yesterday by the competent parliamentary Committee on Institutions and Transparency, based on the argument that issues p

Since the outbreak of the global economic crisis in autumn of 2008, which rocked the foundations of the Greek economy and led the country to the brink of bankruptcy and expulsion from the Eurozone, Greeks have exerted an almost constant effort to disentangle and free the country of the heavy shackles of deficits and debt.

A top Greek criminologist has said that he views widespread football fan club violence as the product of an unholy alliance of organised crime and its backers in state.