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Parties get salty over cheese prices as cost of living debate heats up
PoliticsGreek Politics, Mitsotakis rejected the claim that even some Greek products are more expensive in Greece than other parts... to check on the price of feta. In every case, the price of the cheese was higher than 6.28 euros per... billion euros (more than a quarter of Greece’s annual GDP) over a four-year term. Mitsotakis argued
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Newsletter 431 - 12/07/2024
unemployment. More than two in three (65 pct) said they believe things are going in the wrong..., the government’s attempts to defend the measure by describing it as “5+1 days” rather than six has... as an attempt to put off any clash between Kasselakis and his detractors within the party. Significantly
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Opposition slams PM's positive assessment of Athens wildfire response
PoliticsGreek Politics10 percent of the burned area was forest, while fewer than 100 buildings were damaged with only... that the new firefighting dogma put in place this summer had prevented hundreds of other fires from... on the capital as “something more fitting to Kabul than to a European country”. SYRIZA tabled an urgent
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PM banks on restoration and compensation healing Attica fire wounds
PoliticsGreek Politicstripled during that time. According to the figures put forward by the SYRIZA official, almost 470... that time, more than 86,000 hectares of land was burned. He went on to highlight that wildfires in Greece cause more damage than anywhere else in Europe on average, reaching around 1,000 hectares
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Androulakis well-placed to retain PASOK leadership as Doukas sneaks into run-off ballot
PoliticsGreek Politics, Doukas managed to narrowly hold off Geroulanos, earning just 858 votes more than his more experienced.... It is thought that the supporters of the four candidates are more likely to support Androulakis than... for the second round. However, Doukas’s inability to dominate in the city he presides over has put him
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Newsletter 439 - 01/11/2024
daily Naftemporiki reports that an amendment to the Finance Ministry bill that has just been put... backing has plummeted further, from 7.5 pct to 6.4 pct, placing it in fifth place, more than 1 point... productivity growth and is an outlier is Ireland with more than 5 pct. The next cluster of countries
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Newsletter 445 - 13/12/2024
the conservatives win the next national vote but with fewer than 151 seats in Parliament. Given... nativist party Voice of Reason led by MEP Afroditi Latinopoulou. A new survey by Realpolls for Star TV put... pushed up the debt load in the case of Greece to more than 209 pct of GDP in 2020, and the primary
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Support for ND edges up in new polls as voters' concerns persist
PoliticsGreek Politicsand others had put on the government over the last few weeks. There is little indication in the two..., according to Pulse. This is one point higher than last month. PASOK is at 14 pct, which..., although this is down from 66 last month. Also, 44 pct of those polled said they are worse off than last
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ND's ratings hold despite choice of president but concern builds about Trump effect
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the person being put forward is more important, 54 pct responded that the political background... that many Greeks see Tasoulas specifically as an uninspiring choice, rather than being upset..., suggesting that more Greeks are concerned about Donald Trump than are encouraged by him. According
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PM convenes emergency meeting to work out tariff response strategy
PoliticsGreek Politicsput their total value at less than 50 billion euros. Government officials have been trying to dampen... of Greece estimated that a 10 pct tariffs on EU goods, rather than the 20 pct imposed by Trump, would... would be affected more via its trade with the EU than with the US. Bracing for impact
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