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Newsletter 241 - 28/02/2020
in a society accustomed to witnessing heavy policing of urban protests. While the government has... by sending in riot police has not gone down well with the public or the opposition, while concerns grow..., Mitsotakis has his work cut out to secure voters’ backing on this issue. The challenge faced
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Athens closes border, looks for EU support to ride out migration storm
PoliticsGreek Politicsare much smaller now. This time, the New Democracy government has decided to take a firm stance... has also proved popular as Greeks defend the government’s decision to defend the border, where... Council has also been called for this week. Nevertheless, Athens seems to be disappointed that the EU has
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Newsletter 246 -03/04/2020
lack of a surge in cases in the country. The Health Ministry has given assurances that the system... as a whole has been manageable due to the small number of coronavirus cases requiring hospitalisation compared to other European countries. The public health authority EODY has outlined a targeted testing
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Newsletter 258 -07/17/2020
pension backpay The government has played down concerns about a second wave of Covid-19 Greece... data has suggested that cases could more than double by the end of August without some return... crisis, the government has come in for criticism from opposition parties for its handling
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PM seen boosting powers despite making minor alterations to cabinet
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe first, and minimal, reshuffle since New Democracy came to power. The local media has noted... on the issue of the EU cash and have been highlighting that in a series of moves, Mitsotakis has brought... is that Skylakakis has traditionally been close to the Mitsotakis family, cooperating with the prime minister’s
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SYRIZA goes on offensive over Covid-19 and economic reforms, but internal rifts persist
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the pandemic, SYRIZA has ramped up its criticism of the government on the healthcare front, as well as on the issues raised by the Pissarides report on economic reform. The message, however, has... issue, this is as far as SYRIZA is willing to be openly critical of ND. The leftist party has
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Political friction surfaces in first days of second national lockdown
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the Covid pandemic. SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has been visiting some of the worst-hit regions.... Tsipras has called for the appointment of a health minister with cross-party support, and for the formulation of six-month national pandemic strategy with the consensus of all political parties. He has also
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Greece persistently bottom of the list for EU gender equality
SocietyThe latest report by the European Institute on Gender Equality (EIGE) for 2020 has shown... for gender equality. Since 2005, the country’s score has risen by only 5.4 points. Since 2010, the overall score has risen by 3.6 points with only a single point improvement since 2015. The indicators
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PM dismisses possibility of snap elections, sets out vaccine flow
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has dismissed speculation that he is considering calling snap elections later this year and has indicated that Greece’s latest lockdown is likely to be relaxed.... A year and a half after the elections, little has changed as New Democracy continues to try to project
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Greece and Turkey go into new round of exploratory talks with trust at a premium
PoliticsForeign Policy-year hiatus in the talks between the two countries. However, a new, broader process has also begun... underlining repeatedly that in the past the Turkish side has also tried to put on the table of talks.... In a recent interview with Monocle magazine, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he has “always
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