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This government has instituted measures which previous ones would never have considered. It tied up state assets by handing them over to the Asset  Development Fund, cut pensions, and passed a law lowering the tax-free threshold.

The provision to make many felonies simple misdemeanours will lead to closing about 4,500 felony cases. Thousands of cases involving theft, embezzlement, fraud, and breach of duty will simply disappear.

The government’s slew of handout and social benefits that are designed to lure voters does not appear to have substantially improved SYRIZA’s polling numbers.

A man was killed this Easter and another person is in hospital struggling to survive because of customs such as homemade, hand-held rocket-like fireworks and the celebratory shooting up into the air with rifles.

Given the current impasse and the dark electoral projections the only card the PM has left is snap elections.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told the Financial Times in an interview that he is not going to base his electoral campaign on charity or handouts.

The Left has always been proud of its moral stance. That moral stance was demolished by the left-wing SYRIZA government.

'Modern Greek Studies programmes are dynamic loci of that culture as they not only have high-level educational programmes but also act as a vehicle for the transmission of values to society,' says Ohio State University Professor Yorgos Anagnostou.

Pavlos Polakis blastsKimbouropoulos after said the disabled are not interested in gifts and charity but rather equal opportunity.

It is clear that the demographic problem must be placed at the top of the agenda of the current and future governments.

Many may not be aware of the significance of Greek seamanship. It is not simply the art of sailing. It is a broader nexus of knowledge. It is a traditional code of sailors’ ethics.

The οne $ million fundraising completed by the local Greek community, with lead sponsor Mr. Evangelos Marinakis, safeguards the operation of a department that was destined to close, with the creation of the “Miltiadis Marinakis Professorship for Modern Greek Language and Culture”.

Personal information to which others should not be privy such as one’s body weight or whether one has a pet end up in the hands of companies which sell it to all and sundry.

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.

The observation of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises [SEV] that the longer the pre-election period the greater the danger of a transient recession is noteworthy.  

'I did not and do not have ties with the public sector. I did not intertwine my interests with a party and politicians in order to hugely enlarge my business. My business is abroad. I serve Greece in global shipping,' Marinakis said about Sokratis Kokkalis.

Marinakis told Real FM in a no-holds barred interview that Pappas told him that he had briefed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras about the meetings and the request.

The more cynical among the government’s critics say that the placement of the statue aims to temper the huge backlash after the Prespa naming Agreement last year, which has decimated support for the ruling party in northern Greece

Hospitals cannot be turned into warehouses for children without families and children cannot grow up locked in a hospital just because the state lacks suitable facilities.

The government and the education minister are driving young people to the misery of unemployment in the name of petty partisan gain.

Prisons must ensure basic security and follow the basic tenets of humanism. Their goal must be the social re-integration of prisoners.

Members of the health ministry’s committee for the evaluation of medicines will be examined in order to determine whether they made decisions which illegally benefited Novartis

The government must act poste haste and implement all the reforms that are required in order to shield an economy that is hanging by a thread.

This country has suffered from nepotism, and unfortunately it has continued under SYRIZA rule.

Tsipras’ intervention at yesterday’s extraordinary EU summit on Brexit was revealed in a report by Bloomberg, which underlined that the Greek PM flipped the result of the referendum in July, 2015,

In democratic countries attempts to manufacture guilty parties do not go unpunished. Those responsible are held to account by the justice system.

The bill comes in the midst of a severe crisis in US-Turkey relations arising from Ankara’s decision to buy Russian S-400 missile systems and to strengthen its embrace of Moscow. The purchase is sanctionable under US law.

What remains to be seen is whether the government was unaware of the murky activities and ties between SYRIZA cadres on the one hand and Artemiou and Petsitis on the other.

Papadea said she had resigned from the management of the family business in 2015 and described the allegations against her as a diversionary tactic to draw attention away from the ongoing Novartis probe

The political consensus needed to wage the anti-corruption battle is being destroyed, and that in itself is a first-class scandal.

The Turkish defence minister said that Ankara seeks a dialogue at every level and conducts talks and contacts with its neighbours, but will give the necessary response if provoked.

There will be a university of the academic elite on the one hand and on the other faculties that are looked down upon, whose students will have no interest in the subject of their studies.