Syriza

Germany and the IMF appear to be unhappy with the Greek government’s pension reform plan, but details are still fuzzy. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras had been asked by Greece’s international creditors at the height of the crisis last summer...

It’s only a matter of time before Greece's SYRIZA-led government loses its political legitimacy entirely and the country ends up with yet another snap election. This is an argument I have been making virtually since SYRIZA's rise to power. Now, a poll by...

Greek labor unions are preparing for a 24-hour nationwide strike, set to take place on Thursday, February 4, reported Reuters. The unions will protest against the pension reform that the leftist Greek government plans to make, following the instructions of...

Greek main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, fresh from his victory in an internal party election for president, sharply criticized the SYRIZA-led government on Friday for crushing self-employed professionals, recently hired people and pensioners with its policies. He made...

Main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis gave his inaugural speech as President to the party's Parliamentary group on Thursday, thanking the MPs "for keeping New Democracy upright in 2015, during the populism tsunami that swept the country." "The country's political map...

Ever since the outbreak of the Greek debt crisis and the subsequent bailout programs that followed (the first one in May 2010 by the Papandreou government and the second one in June 2012 under the Samara’s government), numerous analysts...

SYRIZA's rise to power was accompanied by popular hopes for reform on all fronts: economic, environmental, political and cultural. Alas, none of the hopes became reality. In fact, instead of spurring positive social change, the governing SYRIZA party has followed closely...

The election of free-market reformer Kyriakos Mitsotakis as leader of Greece's main opposition New Democracy has spread joy to those who see him as Prime Minister material but, inexplicably enough, has generated irritant responses on the part of the governing...

Greek conservatives elected Kyriakos Mitsotakis as their new leader, hoping to have the opportunity to revive their prospects and to confront leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, says Reuters. New Democracy is seeking to recover from the heavy defeat in September,...

Government Vice-President Yiannis Dragasakis outlined plans for a series of targeted policies to bring about economic recovery in 2016, in an interview published by the newspaper "Avgi" on Sunday. He noted that SYRIZA must now form "social alliances" for...