🎙️ Party people: SYRIZA vs Kasselakis🎙️ SYRIZA has a new leader, Kasselakis has a new party. Does any of this matter, though? Nick Malkoutzis, Yiannis Mouzakis & Georgia Nakou gather in The Agora to ponder the relevance of recent developments macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.t…

Voters are likely to wonder why gov officials kept insisting for so long that they could not intervene with regard to practices in the banking sector. Some Greeks might feel that the gov only acted because its ratings have slipped and was pushed by PASOK #Greece

ND holding on to diminished lead, 22.9% of voting intentions, compared to 24.9% in the summer. PASOK established in second with 14.2%, compared to 11.1%. The poll picks up a great deal of negative sentiment among voters, the biggest concern is inflation/cost of living #Greece

Mitsotakis seems to have calculated that he would lose more by arriving at a decision that would make any disunity in his party more visible, and therefore a subject of constant media speculation, than he would gain by appearing as a cross-party unifier #Greece

Employment and wage data explains why Greeks struggle to see growth dividends. Yiannis Mouzakis delves into the numbers macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.t… #Greece #economy

🎙️Greece and the Trump factor🎙️ In the latest episode of The Agora, Alexandra Voudouri explains how the US President’s return could affect Greek foreign policy & Frank De Mita discusses what mainstream parties can learn about political communication macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.t…

Support for ND collapses by 4 points to 24.5% as tactic of barking at people and offending everyone does not pay off #Greece

An effort to trace how we went from a place of darkness to somewhere even bleaker

Experts’ report finds serious safety shortcomings, the prospect of unregistered cargo that caused the fire and that the site of the accident was not preserved or properly recorded, leading to a loss of significant forensic evidence, putting gov in even more awkward spot #Greece

A bugler plays for the 57 dead of #Tempi in #Korinthos, where thousands protested for justice. All shops and businesses closed. It's the first general strike I've seen in Greece that's actually general.

🎙️ Greek politics feels aftershock from Tempe train crash🎙️ Yiannis Mouzakis & Georgia Nakou join Nick Malkoutzis in The Agora to discuss the growing political turmoil being caused by fallout from Greece's deadliest rail disaster two years on from crash macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.t…

"Fragile" is perhaps too charitable a term. The trail followed by inside story. leads to a dubious "news" site with a track record of publishing disguised paid content. 👇👇

Why Mitsotakis and his government struggle to build traction for his economic record with #Greece's public

#Greece has the EU's second lowest per capita GDP in purchasing power terms, only above Bulgaria that is catching up fast

Ouch

In an estimate last month, Bank of Greece had assumed 10 pct tariffs on EU goods, leading to an overall impact of 0.4 pct on Greek GDP by 2026. However, our view was always that Greece would experience serious second-round effects even before the latest tariffs were announced.

Property prices in #Greece at all time high, since Q1 2019 prices are up by ~65%, nominal wages have increased by roughly 25%

Podcast - Subsidise this: Fraud scandal delivers new blow to Greek PM Yiannis Mouzakis & Georgia Nakou join Nick Malkoutzis in The Agora to discuss potential political implications of EU probe into major farming aid swindle macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.t… #Greece

#Greece’s farm fraud offers damning evidence that — after three bailouts and a financial crisis that lasted over a decade — the country still hasn’t cleared out the rot.  politico.eu/article/greece…