Political ideologies

The leader of the leftist MeRA25 party, Yanis Varoufakis, submitted a proposal to Parliament on Tuesday for the establishment of an inquiry committee to investigate the causes of Greece's financial meltdown and bankruptcy in 2010 and its subsequent international bailouts.

In a joint declaration on Dec. 15, Turkish political parties urged the U.S. to revoke its decision to impose sanctions on Turkey over its acquisition of the Russian S-400 missile defense system.

"We reject the U.S. sanctions decision that was announced on Dec. 14, 2020. Turkey never hesitates to take any step necessary to protect its national security," read the declaration.

Greek political parties continued a heated debate in the Parliament's plenary session on Monday over the draft state budget for 2021.

The debate, which is in its fourth day, will conclude with a vote on Tuesday night.

A country cannot sustain its democracy by closing political parties, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Spokesperson Faik Öztrak said on Dec. 14, referring to the call of Nationalist Movement Party leader Devlet Bahçeli to shutdown the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) lawmakers had exchanged a war of words over security policies of the government that escalated tension at the budget talks of the parliament on Dec. 13.

During the budget negotiations, HDP MPs criticized the appointment of trustees to the municipalities where their party's candidates won at the elections.

Commercial enterprises that suffer the greatest loss in turnover this holiday season will receive most of the fifth and sixth phases of the "Deposit To Be Returned" after Christmas, Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis promised on Saturday, referring to the cheap state loans program for entrepreneurs and the self-employed.

The Social Democrat Party (PSD) claims that the "only reasonable solution" for Romania is that President Iohannis "stop ignoring" the Constitution and allow this party to gather a majority around professor Alexandru Rafila, the proposal of the Social Democrats for the position of Prime Minister.

A total of 33 security operations, including nine large scale and 24 medium scale, were carried out domestically and abroad, and 68 "terrorists were neutralized," the Defense Ministry said on Dec.13.

All opposition parties in Parliament denounced the government on Friday in the wake of the European Council and its conclusions regarding Turkey.

The fines imposed on nine women activists who were detained on November 25 for violating the public health protection measures by gathering in front of Parliament in Athens to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women have been erased, Deputy Citizens' Protection Minister Lefteris Oikonomou said on Friday.