Course of Freedom

President denies request for release of minutes from crucial 2015 meeting

Published by Kathimerini on Mon, 09/30/2024 - 12:17

President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has rejected a request from the minor populist party Course of Freedom (Plefsi Eleftherias) to release the minutes of a crucial meeting of political party leaders held after Greeks voted by a large margin to reject the austerity terms of an aid package from international creditors in 2015.

The far-right: A fragmented, not emerging force

Published by Kathimerini on Sat, 07/01/2023 - 13:44

What has been extensively discussed since the election? The resounding victory of New Democracy, which was also a personal triumph for conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis; the defeat of SYRIZA; the relatively modest performance of PASOK (which received only a fraction of the votes that SYRIZA lost); the resurgence of Zoe Konstantopoulou through her party, Course of Freedom.