Greek government-debt crisis

Sokratis Famellos, the new president of SYRIZA, held a meeting with former Prime Minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras.

The meeting between the two men took place on Thursday afternoon at Tsipras’ office in central Athens.

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The fact that SYRIZA managed to bring an end to its adventures with Stefanos Kasselakis - albeit it in a not very democratic way, admittedly - and to democratically elect a decent, if not brilliant, new leader in Sokratis Famellos is good news for Greece's earthquake-prone political system.

For leftist SYRIZA, the real challenge now lies ahead. We don't mean the likelihood of more MPs defecting from its parliamentary group or the fact that the ill-mannered Pavlos Polakis came second in Sunday's party leadership race with a stunning 43% that established him as the de facto voice of the opposition within the party.

A new nationwide survey by Pulse showed ruling New Democracy maintaining a significant lead, with socialist PASOK solidifying its position in second place.

A poll by Pulse, presented on Skai’s main news bulletin, gives New Democracy an expanded lead of 12.5 points over PASOK, which, however, remains the big winner of the current political situation.

Hello, today I want to focus on two books from which I managed to read excerpts and found quite interesting. The first is the memoir of Merkel, including everything she says about us—Greece. During her tenure, we went back and forth—figuratively and literally—within and outside of Europe, and endured the hardships of the bailout programs. I read the Greek excerpts with great attention.

The rift inside ruling New Democracy continued to make headlines last week. 

"Freedom" is a word that is intrinsically associated with the life of Angela Merkel. From her formative years in East Germany to her last term as chancellor, which coincided with Donald Trump's first US presidency, she has constantly been called upon to defend one of humanity's greatest values.

Unfamiliar but historic moments from Greece’s nearly decade-long fiscal adventure are revealed for the first time in the pages of a memoir by one of the key players of the period, none other than former German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The New Democracy and PASOK are up compared to October in a new poll by Interview for POLITIC.