The circus with the asset declarations and the 30 million, which foreign banks are eyeing Greek ones, ship orders and Koustas, the Speakers’ Corner and Kassel

-Hello there, I privation to commencement with planetary affairs today, since the UN Summit successful New York has been making headlines for 4 days now, noting that yesterday Putin sent a precise “tangible” connection astir however overmuch helium rates Trump, by unleashing 1 of his fiercest attacks connected Kyiv. You’ll surely retrieve his infamous gathering with the American president successful Alaska, with the reddish carpets rolled retired for the Russian leader, arsenic good arsenic each the things Trump has been saying lately astir the war—supporting Zelensky, astir retaking Crimea by the West, etc., etc. Don’t beryllium amazed if we get a akin occurrence successful Gaza present that Trump is besides gathering with Netanyahu, but wide it’s not hard to spot that we’re surviving done a play of madness wherever determination are neither constants nor… unchangeable people. So, caution with the heavy analyses astir nationalist defeat, Erdogan’s hegemony, etc., etc., due to the fact that they’re much similar newspapers: 1 time they whitethorn beryllium worthy something, the adjacent they’re lone bully for wrapping fish.

Back to M.M
-After a week successful the US, K.M is backmost to regular life, successful the bureau since morning, but volition beryllium disconnected again midweek for Denmark and the European Political Community. The archetypal time astatine M.M besides means plentifulness of meetings with his unit for coordination and enactment readying (a main 1 astatine noon), portion time the Cabinet volition besides convene, wherever Pierrakakis volition contiguous the measure with the Thessaloniki Fair measures that volition spell done Parliament, and we’ll spot which absorption parties enactment them oregon not. On Friday, K.M volition talk astatine ONNED’s conference, which coincides with New Democracy’s day (October 4).

The circus begins with the plus declarations: property, deposits and grazing land
-A circus is expected successful conscionable a fewer hours astatine Parliament and crossed quality sites, arsenic astatine 10:30 the plus declarations of governmental figures for the fiscal years 2022 and 2023 volition beryllium made public, including the first-time declarations of those elected successful the 2023 parliamentary elections. These see the declarations of enactment leaders, ministers, MPs, MEPs, determination governors, and mayors, which successful the existent clime transportation other interest. Beyond slope balances, fig of properties, oregon banal and communal money portfolios, they’ll besides beryllium connected the lookout for immoderate ownership of “gold-bearing” grazing land— arsenic subsidies from OPEKEPE person precocious shown to beryllium rather lucrative.

The existent property deals and Sarakis’ 30… cardinal (not metallic pieces)
-From what I hear, during the play covered by the declarations determination were spot transactions worthy hundreds of thousands of euros, but the existent “head-spinner” volition travel from elsewhere. The deposits successful the archetypal declaration of autarkic MP Pavlos Sarakis (originally elected with Greek Solution) compared to the pursuing twelvemonth amusement a quality of conscionable implicit 30 cardinal euros. That’s wealth helium received from the US arsenic lawyer for the protected witnesses successful the Novartis case. As “To Thema” revealed successful July 2024, the full magnitude shared among lawyers and “hooded witnesses” exceeded 56 cardinal euros. Of course, it turned retired that the witnesses did supply US authorities with grounds of the existent ungraded involving bribes to doctors for preferential prescribing of the pharmaceutical giant’s products, portion successful Greece they were turned into “pistols” aimed astatine SYRIZA-ANEL’s governmental opponents. Are they trying to thrust america crazy?

The directive connected payments
-“You volition not marque payments the mode OPEKEPE utilized to. Payments volition lone beryllium made aft strict checks.” This is the Commission’s directive to the government. The vice-presidency (Chatzidakis) and the applicable ministry (Tsiaras) are successful changeless interaction with commissioners, due to the fact that wealth does request to scope producers, but Brussels is adamant. Some payments, e.g. for sheep pox, volition beryllium made, but checks are inactive ongoing for integrated farming, portion the basal payments for this year’s OPEKEPE applications volition lone beryllium made with the caller year.

The reappearance of Sakellaropoulou
-After rather immoderate time, erstwhile President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou volition look to talk astatine the presumption of Tasos Giannitsis’ publication “Greece 1953–2024 – Time and Political Economy”, which takes spot contiguous astatine the Megaron Concert Hall. On the sheet are besides prof Kostas Kostis (who wrote the preface), erstwhile lawman curate Panos Tsakloglou, and EKPA emeritus prof Stavros Thomadakis.

Nikos’ crowd…
-I perceive that astatine our person Nikos’ rallies successful Chios, wherever helium was implicit the past weekend, the turnout wasn’t precisely overwhelming – I enactment it arsenic politely arsenic I can. PASOK is the 2nd enactment connected the island, which burned doubly this summer, truthful 1 would expect a spot much interest. But connected Saturday night, erstwhile the person went to Kalamoti, hardly 50 souls showed up successful the quadrate to perceive to him. Not to mention, they didn’t adjacent stitchery astatine the clip they were told, and the person arrived much than an hr late. And it was beauteous chilly that nighttime connected the land – wherefore didn’t they conscionable stitchery successful a bully warm, welcoming bar?

Vrettos and ND
-You saw the news: Natsios of NIKI expelled his MP Vrettos, saying that successful the enquiry connected OPEKEPE helium backed ND’s line. Vrettos had agelong disagreed with Natsios, whose enactment is fundamentally a one-man show, portion for immoderate clip present successful Parliament the script of Vrettos moving to ND has been successful circulation. The Arcadian MP of the Southern District is thought to beryllium “warming up” for ND, but connected ND’s broadside I’m not truthful sure. It remains to beryllium seen however helium votes, of course…

Kimberly’s accomplishment and the vigor file
-In the 3rd 10 days of October, astir apt toward the extremity of the month, Kimberly Guilfoyle volition get present to instrumentality up her station arsenic the caller US ambassador to Greece, sworn successful today. Since her archetypal large milestone volition apt beryllium the Transatlantic Partnership for Energy Cooperation (PTEC) gathering astatine Zappeion, November 6–7, wherever she’ll invited US Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Guilfoyle had a reasonably agelong speech successful New York with Stavros Papastavrou. Energy volition beryllium precocious connected her agenda, arsenic it is for Trump successful his dealings with Europe.

Karystianou
-I work with involvement yesterday Karystianou’s interview-conversation successful Kathimerini. Naturally, she’s a fig ever successful the spotlight, truthful what she says matters, particularly successful penning and not conscionable successful beforehand of microphones. I’ll transcript 1 paragraph of hers, which I deliberation is the bosom of it: “I won’t beryllium organizing thing nor bash I person the clip for it. But I bash wish, similar overmuch of society, to spot thing new. I’m besides portion of the 25%,” she says, continuing: “If what I imagination of comes to life, if thing caller emerges with imaginativeness and a plan, wherefore wouldn’t I agree, wherefore wouldn’t I invited it, without needfully being portion of it?” So, Karystianou, combined with her reply elsewhere successful the interview, wherever she says she has nary ties with Zoe, makes it wide that since “she has nary clip to signifier a party,” but would enactment thing new, she can’t spell with either Tsipras oregon Samaras, since neither is “the new” successful politics, some being erstwhile premier ministers with messy and arguable governmental records. So what’s left, if anything?

Kasselakis – Speakers’ Corner
-To wrapper up today’s (quite rich) governmental section, the nighttime earlier past I stumbled crossed a TikTok unrecorded astir 2 a.m., wherever Kasselakis was successful Syntagma talking with 5–6 passersby who had gathered successful enactment of a well-known hunger striker. The discussions and the “questions” to Kasselakis could person travel consecutive retired of Anita Pania’s infamous Paratragouda show. One asked him wherefore the unit astatine Koumoundourou were unpaid and if Tsipras pocketed the money, different went aft him for Tsipras – “since helium brought you in, what are you telling america now?” different for the euro. And mediocre Kasselakis tried to reply each of them, talking astir an unconventional centrist party. The connection “center” to that assemblage indispensable dependable similar thing extraterrestrial. It resembled the celebrated Speakers’ Corner astatine Hyde Park successful London, wherever each Sunday the city’s “distinguished” speakers and orators would ascent connected a seat and get cheered connected by a clump of jokers.