Divisions, public pressure push Greek PM into tightrope act
First it was for sale, then the deal was scrapped, then the sell-off was back on and now it is to be a joint venture, or maybe not. Few issues…
Greek PM faces tough choices in shrinking window for aid deal
Greece's government will likely scrape through a debt payment next week but has only a short window to overcome wide differences with creditors before the spectre of default returns. The…
UK’s EU dilemma
It wouldn’t be particularly surprising to discover that French president François Hollande’s warning last week that the refugee encampments in Calais would in all likelihood be relocated to Kent in…
A nation for sale
One January day about year and a half ago, the coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) came to power in Greece riding a wave of popular support fuelled by anger…
Greeks spend their locked-away euros
Use it or lose it: that's the plan for many Greeks, who have been going on a credit card-fuelled spending spree as the economy has tanked out of fears their…
Greece: why should you care?
This past Sunday, Greek voters resoundingly said ‘No’ to the bailout package that was offered to their government by the so-called Troika, comprising the International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank,…
‘Sell your family heirlooms’, but can Greece raise the cash?
It's an ambitious idea to say the least: Greece and its creditors want to raise 50 billion euros via privatisations, but previous attempts to sell off the country's assets have…
Non-local disruption in Greece and Karachi
Greece is going through a very rough time. After years of enjoying the low fiscal cost, high welfare quality lifestyle, the Greek state has had to endure something known as…
Turkish delight
Recep Tayyip Erdogan should have seen it coming. Perhaps he did, given that opinion polls were reasonably accurate in predicting the result of Sunday’s parliamentary election in Turkey. In which…
