Antonis Samaras
Antonis Samaras’ reasonable concerns
With two statements - one in the Sunday edition of Kathimerini (November 26) - the former prime minister presented, as he should, his concerns both on national issues and on the issue of marriage for same-sex couples. Antonis Samaras does not belong to the center-left or to social democracy.
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The new tax legislation and Poul Thomsen
The changes to the taxation of the self-employed and freelancers proposed by the Finance Ministry brought to mind a discussion I had in 2012 in Washington with Poul Thomsen, the then head of the International Monetary Fund's mission for Greece and later the Fund's director for Europe.
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Same-sex marriage – a balancing act
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is confronted with a gordian knot on the issue of same-sex marriage.
The center-right prime minister has pledged to push legislation on the issue through Parliament but faces strong opposition from within his own party.
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Same-sex families accuse former ND premier of ‘stigmatizing’ their children
Representative of same-sex families have accused two leading government party MPs opposed to same-sex marriage of "stigmatizing" their children because of the sexual orientation of their parents.
Former premier tests positive with Covid, will not attend PM’s speech
Conservative former prime minister Antonis Samaras has tested positive for Covid-19 and will therefore not be attending the 87th Thessaloniki International Fair (Sept. 9-17) and the prime minister's speech, government sources said on Tuesday.
The annual Fair is where prime ministers present the basic parameters of their four-year government plan.
Kasidiaris-backed Spartiates party makes it into Parliament
The far-right Spartiates (Spartans) party, which has been backed by jailed neo-Nazi Ilias Kasidiaris, looks set to cross the 3% threshold needed to make it into Parliament, with the latest exit polls showing it clinching as much as 5.6% of the vote.
Former Novartis executives cleared of bribery; 15 doctors charged
Four former executives of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis and a former politician were cleared on Monday of bribery and direct complicity in the offense, as part of a probe into allegations that doctors and public officials had accepted kickbacks from the company in a period spanning 2006 to 2015.
Slow death or a second chance?
SYRIZA is in intensive care and the prognosis for the leftist opposition is not good. Will it suffer a slow death or will it make a recovery and get a second chance? Is there a cure and, if so, will it work for this particular patient under these particular circumstances?
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Mitsotakis attends signing of road agreement in Messinia
An agreement to build a road linking Kalamata, Rizomilos, Pylos and Methoni in Messinia, along the southwestern section of the Peloponnese was signed at Kalamata airport on Friday, in the presence of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and by former premier Antonis Samaras, under whose government the project began.
The gauntlet of politics for women in Greece
New Zealand is a country where its prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, stepped down at the age of 43 because she has "no energy to seek re-election" and because "it's time." Greece is the country of "do you know who I am? I wear the pants" (Antonis Samaras in the tumultuous year of 2012).
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