Stefanos Kasselakis

Hollande to meet PM Mitsotakis in Athens

Former French president Francois Hollande is set to meet Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Athens on Friday. The meeting is scheduled to take place at Maximos Mansion at 4.30 p.m.

Hollande will serve as the keynote speaker at the 2nd European Conference for Entrepreneurship, to be held on Saturday at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Athens. 

SYRIZA leader Kasselakis set to visit West Bank

Main SYRIZA opposition leader Stefanos Kasselakis is set to visit the West Bank on May 26 - 27, reports say. 

Kasselakis will reportedly visit the city of Ramallah for meetings with officials of the Palestinian Authority. 

Further details regarding the visit's agenda and the SYRIZA members joining him are to be disclosed shortly.

SYRIZA leader promises to restore ‘bonus’ salaries in public sector

Opposition SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis on Wednesday vowed that if he were elected to office, he would restore the 13th and 14th salaries paid to public sector workers prior to the economic crisis as extra holiday pay. 

"Your real salary has decreased too much," he told a group of civil servants in Athens on Wednesday, a day after the union, ADEDY, held a nationwide strike.

PASOK chief accuses Kasselakis of being puppet in bid to undermine opposition

Nikos Androulakis, whose socialist PASOK party is currently polling in third place ahead of next month's European Parliament elections, sought to deconstruct leftist SYRIZA opposition leader Stefanos Kasselakis on Wednesday, portraying him as a puppet manipulated by government-controlled media in an effort to weaken the opposition.

National issues, cost of living to dominate the weekly agenda

We are just three weeks away from the European elections, and political leaders are intensifying their pre-election campaigns, touring around the country.

National issues, particularly the dispute between Greece and the newly elected government of North Macedonia, relations with Turkey, and the crisis in the Middle East, dominate the agenda.

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