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Newsletter 292 - 09/04/2021
. In an interview to Star TV on Wednesday, Mitsotakis defended the government’s record on handling... process as a major success and a sign of the conservative administration’s strong managerial... traders to receive between 1,000 and 4,000 euros in grants. SYRIZA’s shadow finance minister Efi
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PM riles SYRIZA with remarks on EU anniversary
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKaramanlis had played in securing Greece’s accession to the bloc in 1981. Throughout the last 40 years, New... should stress ND’s role in Greece’s European progression in his speech. Instead, it was a reference... the opposition party. Mitsotakis referred to this period as “an unpleasant break” in Greece’s
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Athens prods EU to resume enlargement process for Western Balkans
PoliticsForeign PolicyRussia’s invasion of Ukraine, Moscow's growing influence in southeastern Europe and the EU... in the region and the pioneer of the Union’s Enlargement policy since the so-called Thessaloniki Agenda (2003... Macedonia and Albania,” noted Mitsotakis in his article. Despite the Greek PM’s ambitions
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Newsletter 347 - 22/07/2022
-congratulatory public relations exercise in the ashes. The party’s press spokesman contrasted photos... the fire was brought under control before causing damages anywhere near the scale of last summer’s fires... that there has not been any significant progress in the state’s response to such natural disasters
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Opposition pushes for phone-tapping probe as early polls claim limited damage to ND
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing on quickly from Friday’s fractious party leaders’ debate on the phone-tapping scandal, Parliament reconvenes in Athens to vote on PASOK-KINAL’s proposal to hold a parliamentary inquiry into the affair. Monday’s discussion will take place against the backdrop of the first published opinion
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Blinken visit highlights Greece's growing role as key regional partner
PoliticsForeign Policyally and partner within NATO and beyond, in Southeast Europe. The Greek government’s firm stance against Russia’s invasion and its full alignment with EU and NATO decisions, which was not taken for granted due to the longstanding good relations with Russia, which contrasted with Turkey’s ambivalent
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Strong showing for ND in first round of local elections amid low turnout
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis interpreted the results of Sunday’s local elections as a “reconfirmation” of the public’s support in his New Democracy party, after candidates backed by the conservatives won seven of Greece’s 13 regional governorships, while ND-supported hopefuls also look well
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Newsletter 399 - 27/10/2023
as the PSI, was announced. Fitch and Moody’s had also placed Greece in the default category during that period. Greece’s rating had been steadily improving since, until the first half of 2015 when the speculative approach of the SYRIZA government in its negotiations with Greece’s lenders led to four
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A Greek form of Triangulation
Agoragovernment in Greek politics. He attributed his centre-right administration’s success to a “new form.... It is attributed to the then US President Bill Clinton’s chief political adviser, William Morris... acted as “responsible patriots”, citing Greece’s “rather effective” management of the migration issue
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Mitsotakis limps into party conference looking to rally ND for EP elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is due to launch this Friday New Democracy’s latest party...-right party remains well ahead in the opinion polls ahead of this summer’s European Parliament... of incidents since its re-election in last summer’s national elections. Given that this year marks 50
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