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Opposition leaders want to know what prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been listening to. EPA/Valda Kalnina

November 8, 2022

Greece’s ‘Watergate’ explained: why the European Parliament is investigating over a wiretapping scandal

Georgios Samaras, King's College London

Prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis admits his intelligence agency surveilled journalists but denies using illegal Predator software on them.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis takes office as Greek prime minister. Alexandros Vlachos/EPA

July 9, 2019

What victory for Kyriakos Mitsotakis means for Greece’s relationship with the EU

Theofanis Exadaktylos, University of Surrey

The road ahead remains rocky for Greece’s newly elected prime minister.

Alexis Tsipras, head of Syriza, returns to power after election victory. Reuters/Michalis Karagiannis

September 21, 2015

Greek election: Tsipras trounces his opponents, but at what cost?

Sotirios Zartaloudis, University of Birmingham

Syriza lives to fight another day, but the omens for Greece’s future are as ominous as ever.

Outgoing Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said he would ‘wear the creditors’ loathing with pride’. Alexandros Vlachos/EPA/AAP

July 7, 2015

Varoufakis exit is not the game changer the EU needs

Partha Gangopadhyay, Western Sydney University

Ongoing negotiations between Greece and the troika are likely to prove futile - what’s needed is a complete rethink of EU’s dualistic system.

Inside the courtroom on the first day of the trial of 69 Golden Dawn members. EPA/Pantelis Saitas

May 6, 2015

For the sake of Greece they must get the Golden Dawn trial right

Dimitrios Giannoulopoulos, Brunel University London

The prosecution of 69 members of Greece’s extreme right political party must be constitutional, fair and conducted in the full glare of public attention.

Greek PM Antonis Samaras gets the Merkel treatment. EPA/Maja Hitij

January 16, 2015

Greece’s choice: vote for Germany or suffer the consequences

Jasper Finkeldey, University of Essex

A joke that is often told among European leftists these days portrays the current situation between Germany and Greece quite accurately. An officer at the passport control at Athens airport asks a tourist…

It doesn’t look good for prime minister Antonis Samaras. EPA

January 14, 2015

Markets threaten Greek democracy ahead of election

John Weeks, SOAS, University of London

Greece faces a decisive moment on January 25 in a snap election that could see major gains for the extreme left and right. But anyone worried about how Syriza on one side, or Golden Dawn on the other…

Alexis Tsipras is on track to win the Greek election. thierry ehrmann

January 9, 2015

Why are European leaders so afraid of Greece’s Syriza party?

Myrto Tsakatika, University of Glasgow

The calling of a snap election in Greece for January 25 has been met with great concern in political circles, prompted direct interventions by top European officials and alarmed markets and credit rating…

Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras is odds-on favourite to emerge as the next prime minister in Greece. EPA/Orestis Panagiotou

December 31, 2014

Syriza surges ahead of January election as Greek voters reject austerity

Marianna Fotaki, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

The snap election called in Greece for January 25 has renewed speculation about the country’s uncertain future as left-of-centre Syriza looks likely to capitalise on the unprecedented unpopularity of the…

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