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Govt puts focus on handouts, migration to take heat off surveillance affair With the opposition intent on cornering Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis over his management of the intelligence service and the surveillance of politicians and journalists, the government is focussed on pulling together an economic package which it hopes will strike a chord with ordinary voters.
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Phone-tapping scandal causing ripple effect across political scene Government officials are targeting the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) in early September, when Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will announce more cost-of-living relief measures, as an escape from the mounting pressure caused by the spying scandal.
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Political impact of spying revelations unclear, as drip-feed of information continues More revelations about the phone-tapping scandal threatening to engulf the Mitsotakis government are expected to surface in the coming days, leading up to the reopening of Parliament and the initiation of the inquiries looking into the affair.
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ND struggles to shift spotlight away from wiretapping fallout New Democracy’s efforts to shift attention away from the spying scandal are being tripped up by the continued muddled messaging emanating from the ruling centre-right party, which is hoping that Greece’s imminent exit from the enhanced surveillance of its lenders and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair next month will prove welcome distractions.
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PASOK and SYRIZA turn up heat on govt as surveillance case realigns political forces Political pressure on Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his government intensified on Wednesday, when PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis rejected the government’s handling of the revelation that he had been the subject of surveillance by Greece’s intelligence service.
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No let-up in pressure over spying scandal as govt unveils intelligence agency changes Looking to deflect some of the criticism over the spying scandal that has gripped Greek politics, the government has fast-tracked reform of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), hoping this will convince the public that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is determined to put right the mistakes that led to the agency monitoring PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis.
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Questions linger following PM's statement on surveillance of political rival A fresh round of questions and accusations have been levelled at Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis after his eagerly anticipated statement on the surveillance of the leader of an opposition party failed to clear the air.
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PM prepares response as pressure over spying scandal mounts Kyriakos Mitsotakis is due to make a statement on Monday in response to the gathering spying revelations that have sent his government reeling and left the Prime Minister facing the toughest political challenge of his tenure.
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Spying scandal triggers high-level resignations, serious questions for government and PM After evading and playing down for weeks claims it was spying on journalists and political rivals, the government was rocked on Friday by the resignation of the Prime Minister’s general secretary, Grigoris Dimitriadis, and the head of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), Panagiotis Kontoleon, in what is shaping up as the biggest scandal yet during Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s tenure.
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Numbers stacking up for PM to announce winter relief package Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis heads for his summer holidays on Friday knowing that upon his return he will have to decide with his ministers what relief measures the government will set out at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) next month.