Costas Iordanidis

By Costas Iordanidis

PASOK chief Evangelos Venizelos will be meeting with Prime Minister Antonis Samaras at the Maximos Mansion on Thursday with the air of a winner from last Sunday’s elections as he hopes to shape the cabinet that will emerge from the expected reshuffle and the coalition government’s new policy line.

By Costas Iordanidis

Three days before Greeks vote in the country’s second round of local elections, along with those for the European Parliament, the political system appears to have dropped the ball. The main reason is that municipal and regional candidates – especially in Athens and the Attica region – are seeking to extract Golden Dawn’s share in the runoff vote.

By Costas Iordanidis

Recent revelations by the Financial Times of the behind-the-scenes machinations at Cannes in November 2011 that led to the downfall of Greece’s then-Prime Minister George Papandreou – a negligible loss of course – and where the leaders of the European Union lost complete control of themselves leave a bitter taste.

By Costas Iordanidis

By Costas Iordanidis

The case of Sabiha Suleiman, the Roma activist whose candidacy for the European Parliament was announced by SYRIZA only to be withdrawn shortly afterward, is an illustration of the leftist opposition party's inexperience and immaturity.

By Costas Iordanidis

The government expected the biggest pre-election challenge to come from leftist SYRIZA. It acted accordingly and possibly improved its public image to some extent, largely due to the amateurism of the main opposition party and the contradictions in its positions.

By Costas Iordanidis