Good morning from Athens, The EU Prosecutor is doing a good job in investigating rule of law cases as Greek citizens mistrust domestic justice and the conservative New Democracy government (EPP), Greece’s main opposition Syriza party (EU Left) leader Stefanos Kasselakis told Euractiv’s Sarantis Michalopoulos in an interview in Athens. Kasselakis, often described as representing a “meta-politics” phenomenon and who replaced former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Syriza’s leadership in September 2023, referred to several cases where the investigation remains either long unsolved or allegedly hindered. On the economic front, he called on Europe’s north to invest in the south to have convergence in the EU single market, while on a political level, he said the EU Left, the Social Democrats and the Greens should come together and form an alternative governance model to right-wing neoliberal policies. Read the full interview here. Meanwhile, Greece fared worst in the EU for the third year, according to the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index 2024. Overall, the report suggests that politicians are the main threat to media freedom in Europe, writes Alice Taylor. Alice will dig deeper into the matter in Euractiv’s Brief newsletter later in the afternoon. |