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Phone-tapping scandal causing ripple effect across political scene
PoliticsGreek Politics, as an escape from the mounting pressure caused by the spying scandal. However, in order to reach TIF... that Mitsotakis is shying away from accepting personal responsibility for the scandal. Pavlopoulos, who served... next week over the spying scandal, especially as there are fears about revelations that other
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Scandal erodes support for ND, complicates path to elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsscandal even though opinion polls continue to show Greeks are more concerned by inflation than... a month ago suggests that the scandal has soured the mood as far as New Democracy is concerned.... The scandal appears to have dented support for New Democracy. According to respondents’ voting
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OPEKEPE scandal widens as pressure mounts for PM on multiple fronts
PoliticsGreek Politics, new legal pathways, and new political complications to a scandal that is rapidly becoming one... the scale of the scandal, there is no indication that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis... “in principle” accepts requests to lift parliamentary immunity and emphasised that the scandal reflects long
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Farm subsidy scandal prompts disquiet in ruling party, encourages opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsleaks from the European prosecutor’s case files and an opposition that now treats the scandal... local intermediaries. At the same time, he tried to recast the scandal as a turning point... elections. For the opposition, the scandal has become the latest piece in a broader narrative about
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PM prepares response as pressure over spying scandal mounts
PoliticsGreek Politicsto insulate Mitsotakis from the scandal, government sources also argue that the PM knew nothing about EYP... of their attacks on ND in the coming days as they try to make this scandal stick to the PM. It will also.... The opposition’s argument that ND is attempting to cover up a major scandal, and the involvement of top
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No let-up in pressure over spying scandal as govt unveils intelligence agency changes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsLooking to deflect some of the criticism over the spying scandal that has gripped Greek politics... to insulate itself from the scandal’s reverberations seem to be having a limited effect so far.... Opposition pressure Understandably, the opposition parties show no signs of letting up over the scandal
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PM brushes aside spying scandal, lowers expectations for handouts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis chaired on Wednesday his first cabinet meeting since the phone-tapping scandal..., fiscal space is limited. Clearly, the PM’s intention was to draw a veil over the phone-tapping scandal... issue. However, even if the part of the scandal linked to Predator is taken out of the equation
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ND courts voters with hardline migration bill as pressure grows over farming subsidy scandal
PoliticsGreek Politicsof reforms which it hopes will move the agenda on from the farming subsidy scandal. At a cabinet meeting... meeting to try and draw a line under the scandal surrounding OPEKEPE, the agency responsible... that genuine payments will not be affected. Famellos said the scandal has harmed Greece’s reputation
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Hoping to continue poll recovery, PM tries to put lid on subsidy scandal
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the centre of the farming subsidy scandal that has put his government in an uncomfortable spot at a time... issue of ministerial responsibility in the OPEKEPE scandal. The opposition parties fundamentally... scandal. As is evident from Mitsotakis’s social media post, the government is aware
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PM offers shopping bill subsidy as surveillance scandal threatens to spill over into judicial crisis
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFacing a potential judicial/constitutional crisis over the surveillance scandal, Prime Minister... on Saturday, SYRIZA and PASOK tried to repeatedly raise the issue of the surveillance scandal... to prevent an independent body from conducting its work in order to keep a lid on the phonetapping scandal
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