Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said his “his victory over populism in Greece” serves as a lesson “for other liberal democracies. If you deliver real change for people, people will reward you,” he told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour.
SYRIZA’s defeat at the polls on Sunday was a strategic defeat. It did not concern one person exclusively or the election campaign, nor does it point to certain organizational weaknesses. It is a combination of all three.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has summoned the leaders of the five parties represented in the new Parliament to a meeting in the Presidential Palace at 11 a.m. Wednesday.
Nikos Androulakis, the socialist PASOK leader, has turned down the third exploratory mandate to form a government in a meeting with President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
National Bank, the country’s second-largest lender by market value, has posted a 28% drop in earnings for the first quarter on lower trading income and one-off items.
The illumination of the castle town of Monemvasia, southern Greece has divided locals, with some saying the project will highlight the landscape and monuments, while others insist it will alter the area’s character and increase its touristification.
Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan is … strong. Despite most opinion polls predicting a win for main-opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu, a soft-spoken technocrat who leads the secularist Republican People’s Party (CHP), President Erdogan received 49.5% of the votes in Sunday’s presidential election compared to Kilicdaroglu’s 44.9%. Erdogan’s Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its…
The deadline for the filing of income tax returns for 2022 has been extended to July 31, following a decision by the Deputy Minister for Taxation Policy and Public Property Apostolos Vesyropoulos. Moreover, the payment deadline for the first tax instalment remains July 31.
Police in Athens have apprehended and arrested a 35-year-old man who is wanted on charges of rape, revenge pornography, threats, insults, bodily harm and domestic violence.