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Draft 2022 budget represents first attempt to restore post-pandemic fiscal order
EconomyMacroeconomyFollowing two years during which Greece was allowed, thanks to the SGP escape clause, to run substantial deficits to protect its economy from the impact of the pandemic, 2022 sees some sense of fiscal order returning based on the draft budget submitted to Parliament on Monday. Using the enhanced
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Government leans on 'law and order' after arson arrests, but Predator scandal still festers
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government has seized on a series of high profile arrests to reinforce its “law and order” message, hoping to restore trust among right‑leaning voters shaken by recent political turbulence. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis described the detentions linked to the recent deadly firebombing
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Tsipras conducts varied reshuffle in further bid to revitalise coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsscrutiny. Also, New Democracy has pushed the law and order issue up the political agenda over recent... figures from outside the two coalition parties in order to give the impression of renewal. The reshuffle... be leaving the Interior Ministry to become SYRIZA’s secretary, several other frontline officials
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Government courts backlash over squat raids, while opposition is absorbed in internal debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe Interior Ministry to the Ministry of Citizen Protection, essentially defining it as a public order... government’s willingness to implement the hard-line law and order agenda which was a mainstay of its... warrants have already been issued. Law and order agenda The police operations coincide with the formal
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Newsletter 279 -13/11/2020
to strike early in order to overcome the challenge of proportional representation. The next elections... continued to decline due to the lockdown, which impacted new order flows. The pace of decline... to lower production requirements and redundancies. Backlogs of work fell at a marked pace as new order
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ND wrong-foots SYRIZA with call to lift expat vote restrictions
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be able to demonstrate recent tax and residence ties with Greece in order to be eligible to vote... ND and SYRIZA of stoking the controversy in order to revise a law which passed only recently... a banner of law and order while allowing the country to become a colony of organised crime and letting
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New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post
PoliticsGreek Politicsin order to overcome the challenge of proportional representation. The next elections will be held under... the deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the incident, accusing SYRIZA of losing control of law and order. The law and order issue... portfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos
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Newsletter 228 -15/11/2019
ND invests in law and order Govt takes tough line on universities, anarchists to win over right... to shift the political debate to matters where it believes it is in stronger ground: Law and order... that promotes law and order to retain voter satisfaction by cracking down on anarchist groups
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Govt’s “zero tolerance” approach to violent protest provokes accusations of authoritarianism
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGovernment and opposition in Greece are once again facing off over law and order in universities... and order agenda Visible policing has been one of the hallmarks of the New Democracy government since... public order offences harsher. A key change involved easing police access to university campuses
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