Is there a possibility of cooperation between PASOK and SYRIZA before the European elections? Even if SYRIZA decided the form or the time they would like a rapprochement with PASOK (which, from the existing divergence, does not seem to have happened yet), from the PASOK side there is no such issue.
Athens wants an active role on the diplomatic chessboard, following closely but with growing concern the developments in the Middle East, especially after the bloodshed in the hospital in Gaza. Kyriakos Mitsotakis was planning, according to information, to go to Israel, tomorrow, Thursday.
Creator of the €30,000-a-bottle Liber Pater, Bordeaux winemaker Loïc Pasquet is launching a tax-free €550-a-bottle Greek wine to promote a quintessentially Dionysian terroir: Naxos.
The second round of local government elections in Greece on Sunday saw ruling New Democracy (ND) party-backed candidates lose the municipal races in Athens and Thessaloniki, as well as in five out of the six regional governor seats up for grabs.
Nevertheless, candidates that are ND party cadres ND or backed by the center-right party had picked up seven out of the 13 regional governors’ seats last Sunday, while on the second Sunday four of the five candidates in the regional races were from within the party’s ranks, but running against an officially backed candidate.