The latest polls before Greece’s general elections predict a win for Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s centre-right New Democracy over PM Alexis Tsipras’s left-wing Syriza.
Greece election: End of the road for Alexis Tsipras’s SYRIZA? [vid]
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The latest polls before Greece’s general elections predict a win for Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s centre-right New Democracy over PM Alexis Tsipras’s left-wing Syriza.
Devastating loss for ruling left-wing Syriza party in European election opens door to New Democracy party. Tsipras’s last-minute handouts may have backfired. Focus turns to the feasibility of Mitsotakis’s plans to lower taxes.
Macedonia’s future remains uncertain after a referendum to rename the country failed. On this episode of The Stream, we speak with Vera Lalchevska (Joint Macedonian NGOs Representative Office to the UN), Panos Polyzoidis (Political Analyst and Journalist), Bojan Marichik (Special Adviser – Foreign Policy to Prime Minister Zoran Zaev).
A new name was intended to end decades of diplomatic deadlock. But nationalists in both Greece and Macedonia are unhappy at the choice – Republic of North Macedonia. This television discussion explores the social and ideological roots of this long-standing dispute and the political mechanics that will decide the fate of the agreement.