Greek Government

The banking system is moving toward the development of an “excellent clientele” and of survival in a competitive economic environment.

A barrage of draft legislation which signals the government’s outlook and overall plan will be tabled in Parliament.

The common ground should be that the electoral system must not change every so often.

This government, as an expose in Ta Nea reported introduced a model that yielded exceptional results in Singapore 45 years ago.

The three-day vote of confidence debate demonstrated that the main players of the political system have understood that society’s needs in this new era cannot be satisfied by sterile disputes and pointless shouting.

The PPC crisis must be addressed with the consensus that an issue of national import demands.

Avramopoulos stressed that cooperation with Turkey is essential and that good cooperation will yield positive results.

It requires incentives to lure back the many Greek businesses that were forced to move to neighbouring countries to find a better tax environment.

One such hot potato is banks’ non-performing loans (NPLs) and another is the Public Power Corporation (PPC).

The PM’s personal ambitions concern the entire country. His wager is a wager that concerns the social whole.

The warnings that the Bank of Greece issues due to its institutional role should be viewed as necessary, and not as hostile acts as the government viewed them over the last four years.

PPC needs two billion euro to be saved. Where will it find this huge sum to ensure its viability?

The charges of the Greek Council for Refugees should be investigated in depth by the competent organs of the state, which must attribute responsibility.

Suffice it to say that the list of areas that pose an increased fire risk has not been updated since 1984.

The main opposition party chose not to outdo the government as regards promises of benefits and citizens appeared to have rewarded it for that prudent stance at the ballot box.

The investigating magistrate is responsible for coordinating efforts to track down the other culprits and commence criminal proceedings.

What national interest is served by having film industry executives and ministry staff traveling on a regular passenger ship to see Greece’s beauties even as the competent deputy minister was sailing on a yacht?

The queues of pensioners at ATMs the day the first pension bonus was disbursed demonstrated how much retirees need that money to cover their living needs.

Five months ago Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras inaugurated the metro there with a ticket vending machine that was painted on canvas as a backdrop.

The government has put taxpayers in an economic pincer which has created mounting debts to the tax bureau and to insurance funds.

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.

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

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.  

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

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.

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

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.

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

'Human rights cannot be placed in a hierarchy. They are at the same level and are protected equally when they are violated,' said outgoing Commission president Yorgos Stavropoulos.

Fresh data that show that 83,000 families had their electricity cut off in 2017 alone due to delinquent debt to the Public Power Corporation.

Many home loams were not serviced because debtors suffered dramatic cuts in their income or lost their jobs.

It is inconceivable in a democracy for a government to label all those who disagree with it mindless or fascists, especially when the disagreement involves a national issue.

There are also concerns about the future of Greek citizens who are studying or working in Britain in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

New Democracy cited a Bloomberg report saying Novartis in an internal audit found no kickbacks to Greek officials. ND for over a year has argued that the whole affair is a conspiracy.

The government appears to be either forgetting or ignoring that in democracies the government’s record is judged by the vote of all citizens without distinction.