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Tsipras plans SYRIZA reboot, as govt pandemic response faces multiple challenges
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras is said to be planning a shake-up of the main opposition party in advance of the return of Parliament in September. Tsipras hopes to defuse discontent within the party so that it can focus its energies on opposition, however...
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Insolvency bill debate brings implementation challenges to the fore
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA draft insolvency mega-bill is being debated in Parliament this week, following several months of drafting and a six-week consultation period. The legislation aims to introduce a new and more efficient legal framework capable of handling small-scale in...
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Challenges piling up for govt as spokesperson departs
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe difficulties faced by the government are piling up as Covid-19 continues to be a threat to public health and finances, the stand-off over the hunger strike of terrorist Dimitris Koufodinas intensifies and another high-profile figure departs the admi...
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Turkey: Multiple policy challenges from all directions
AgoraTurkey is battling a third wave of the virus and daily infections are the fourth highest in the world behind India, the US and Brazil — all countries with far higher populations. The seven-day rolling average of new cases is now over 53,000; it was arou...
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Govt faces fallout from hospital vaccine mandate, as school opening poses fresh challenges
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe vaccination mandate for hospital staff came into effect on Wednesday, resulting in thousands of temporary suspension notices for unvaccinated workers. Greece’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, rejected a second attempt by hospital...
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Against backdrop of growing energy challenges, PPC capital raise stirs reaction
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlthough Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his aides have been meeting with investors in New York, the headlines in Friday’s newspapers were dominated by the news that the state-controlled Public Power Corporation (PPC) is launching a capital raise...
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Hooliganism poses familiar set of challenges for government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis chaired a meeting with several key ministers on Friday to discuss the government’s approach to hooliganism after the recent death of a football supporter in Thessaloniki posed the latest challenge to New Democracy’s la...
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Hopes of EU providing immediate relief wane as economic challenges multiply
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe first day of the EU leaders’ summit in Versailles on Thursday did not produce particularly encouraging developments for the Greek government, which is hoping that Europe will step in to provide solutions on the fiscal front as the energy crisis and ...
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SYRIZA challenges govt over Covid deaths again as pandemic numbers rise
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is set to make a televised address on Wednesday to unveil his government’s latest attempt at combatting the cost-of-living crisis, but SYRIZA is trying to push the issue of Covid-related deaths back up the political ag...
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ND faces fiscal balancing act and more challenges over spying scandal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is trying to look ahead to the package of inflation-busting measures Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will announce in just over a month at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), but the opposition sense it can impede New Democracy’...
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