June 27, 2023

The Comeback Kid

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was sworn in Monday, a day after his center-right New Democracy party won a resounding victory in Greece’s repeat parliamentary elections, Reuters reported. Results showed that New Democracy secured a majority by receiving 158 of 300 parliamentary seats, while the leftist...

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May 24, 2023

Gambling Big

Greece’s ruling conservatives and its main leftist opposition party rejected mandates to form a coalition government following the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections – which could lead the European Union country to hold another vote next month, Reuters reported Tuesday. The results of the elections showed...

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May 19, 2023

Tough Love

Eight years ago, at the peak of the migration crisis in Europe, around one million Syrian refugees fleeing their country’s bloody war traveled to Greece for safety and economic opportunities. Four years ago, conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis defeated leftist Alexis Tsipras on a pledge...

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March 15, 2023

Call Me

A young man traveling on the train from Athens to the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki on Feb. 28 was having trouble speaking to his mother on the phone. “Mum, there are too many people on the train,” he said, according to Agence France-Presse. “I’ve...

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March 03, 2023

Culpability

Rail workers launched strikes across Greece this week, the latest display of anger and condemnation against Greek authorities following a train crash on Tuesday that killed at least 57 people, the BBC reported. The walkouts come after protests occurred in a number of cities, including the...

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August 11, 2022

I, Spy

Greek authorities are investigating the wiretapping of a political leader’s phone by the country’s intelligence service, a burgeoning scandal that opposition parties have called the prime minister’s “Watergate,” Reuters reported. Last week, Nikos Androulakis, the leader of Greece's socialist PASOK party and a member of the...

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