New Democracy tries to win over voters with crackdown on bank charges, migration

PoliticsGreek Politics Tags: Banking, Cost of living, Migration, New Democracy, PASOK-KINAL
Photo by Panayiotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos
Photo by Panayiotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

Amid the onslaught of damaging revelations about farm payments fraud, ministers have seized on voter-pleasing topics to try and reverse the negative climate emerging from polls, announcing new limits on bank charges while doubling down on anti-migrant rhetoric.

This week, the Finance Ministry announced that it had submitted an amendment to limit the amounts charged bank customers for cash withdrawals from ATMs. The measures came after the outcry which greeted Piraeus Bank’s new arrangement for offsite cash mac...

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