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Govt holds off on new Covid-19 measures as public reacts to GD ruling As Greece keenly waits for the sentencing process in the Golden Dawn trial to be completed, attention switched back to the coronavirus on Friday.
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Golden Dawn sentencing excites political controversy The conviction of the leadership of neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn continues to attract statements of praise and relief from representatives across the political system in Greece, while upcoming decisions on sentencing are becoming the focus of political controversy.
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Landmark Golden Dawn verdict welcomed by parties, obscuring underlying divisions In a landmark decision on Wednesday, an Athens court ruled that Neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn had been operating as a criminal organisation and that seven of its former MPs should be sentenced along with other party members.
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Approaching Golden Dawn verdict shines spotlight on Greek politics, justice After five and a half years of hearings, the criminal trial of the political leadership and several members of Greek far-right party Golden Dawn is due to reach a verdict on Wednesday morning.
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PM in search of recovery fund boost as parties clash over latest Novartis episode As Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrived at the latest European Union summit in Brussels on Friday in the hope that an agreement would be secured on the Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF), Greece’s domestic politics was focussed on the latest fallout from the Novartis scandal.
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Square reveal puts ND on the spot New Democracy found itself on the defensive on Friday over the actions of two key officials: Centre-right Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis and Prime Minister Kyriakos’s Mitsotakis’s chief of staff Akis Skertsos.
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ND under attack from all sides over handling of football wrangle The government is trying to avoid tying itself up in knots after coming under attack from all sides on Wednesday, when it passed an amendment that ensures two football clubs from northern Greece will not be relegated despite an independent commission recommending that they be expelled from the Super League.
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ND vies for more support on migration, gets tangled up in football controversy Migration was in the spotlight again on Tuesday, soon after the government received another reminder about the high level of dissatisfaction among voters about the way the issue is being addressed by New Democracy.
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Criminal justice system deemed too weak to fight corruption The European Council’s analysis of the Greek criminal justice system has found that the current setup inadequate to counter corruption.
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Economy
Court verdict on 2016 pension reform seen having fiscal impact Rulings from the Council of State just published deem parts of the 2016 pension reform, known as the Katrougalos law, unconstitutional and mean the new government will have to redesign parts of the social security system and incur a reported annual fiscal of around 300 million euros.