According to fresh data collected from the country’s airports by the Greek Tourism Enterprises Association (SETE), there was an upward trend for Greek tourism in 2015, since international tourist arrivals in Greece increased 5.7 % in 2015 compa…
One of the most notable reforms of 2015 in Greece was the recognition of same-sex partnership by the Parliament, on December 22. With 194 votes in favor the parliament had given the green light for homosexual couples to enter into a civil union partn…
On 10 January 2016, Kyriakos Mitsotakis won the intra-party elections and became the new leader of New Democracy. What were the decisive catalysts that made Mitsotakis' victory possible against all odds? What can one expect in the immediate future? T…
In a Bruegel opinion piece (originally published in Kathimerini daily), economist Ashoka Mody, visiting Professor in International Economic Policy at Princeton University, makes the case for less austerity measures and more growth projects in Gr…
The Prime Minister’s, Alexis Tsipras’, speech in the National School of Public Administration and Local Government, as part of the two-day conference "Public Administration, Democratic Governance and Social Solidarity" organised for its 30 years of function:
Mrs President, ladies and gentlemen,
It is a great honour and joy, at the same time, to address today this salute for the 30th anniversary of the National School of Public Administration and Local Government. And I would say that it is an honour and joy, but also a happy coincidence, as this event coincides with the launch of a major initiative reform undertaken by the government in order to implement an announcement that the Greek people, the citizens, but also the public administration’s officers have heard many times being announced, but unfortunately never being implemented. It is about a substantial reform, as far as its structure, its merit-based public administration is concerned, but also as far as the emergence of executives is concerned.…
In Strasburg on January 13, Greek association Agkalia from the island of Lesvos received the Council of Europe’s 2016 Raoul Wallenberg Prize for outstanding achievements in providing frontline assistance to thousands of refugees irrespective of…
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos has been touring eurozone capitals in the last days to explain the country’s reform measures, to seek support for an early, positive review by international lenders, and to drum up support for debt relie…
The issue of the overhaul of the pension system in Greece is by far the most important and at the same time sensitive reform topic to date, especially with the Greek society experiencing a major exhaustion from the continuous austerity measures impos…
Alternate Economy Minister and responsible for the EU National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) funds for 2014-2020, Alexis Haritsis, announced last week that the funds for the 2007-2013 period were successfully implemented, specifying that Gree…
How can we think Greece’s transition to European Modernity and the relevant discourses especially in relation to the ongoing economic and political crisis?
Professor of History in Athens University Antonis Liakos’ and Hara Kouki’s r…
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