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PM makes limited, cautious changes to cabinet after election disappointment
PoliticsGreek Politicsat ministerial level in five departments: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural... as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras, once a justice minister under Mitsotakis, becomes the new agriculture minister. Niki Kerameus is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry
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Newsletter 428 - 21/06/2024
: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural Development. The new head of the Development Ministry is Takis Theodorikakos, who has previously served as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras... is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry, where she is replacing one of the few
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Drop ‘til you shop
Agorapeople buying clothes or other goods, it can be about making the city centre or neighbourhoods... Nights initiative that the City of Athens ran in conjunction with shops in the city centre last year... effort to make this less about consumer spending and more about reviving city centres and shopping
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Varosha move puzzles amid low expectations on Cyprus
PoliticsForeign Policyup Maronite villages and the “ghost city” of Famagusta (Varosha). Government sources in both Greece... informed of any plans by the Turkish Cypriot side to hand over the fenced-off city of Varosha to UN... to discuss the opening of the ghost city as part of confidence-building measures but only under UN
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Greeks consider antisemitism a minor issue despite recent attacks
Societymemorial in Thessaloniki had been vandalised once more, ahead of planned commemorations in the city... was home to a Jewish community of around 60,000 which had been established in the city for over 450 years. Less than 2,000 of the city’s Jewish population survived the Nazi invasion and subsequent
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Athens "Great Walk" plan scaled back amid criticism
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAn ambitious plan to pedestrianise large sections of Athens city centre has been scaled back... strong cross-party support in the city council, but its rushed implementation during the easing... as an experiment to test if reducing car traffic in the city centre was achievable, while he defended
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Govt scurries for effective Covid-19 response as opposition finds more holes to pick
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe last few days and, following a visit to the city by Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias, government spokesman Stelios Petsas announced that the city, along with Serres, would go into a stricter... claim that all the ICU beds in the city have been filled over the last few days. Not all
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Athens prepares for Ukraine talks with Nuland as Dendias visits Odessa
PoliticsForeign Policyof the Alliance. Dendias in Odessa Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias arrived in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa on Sunday to oversee the delivery of humanitarian aid to the city’s municipal authorities. He also..., is that we are going to be part of this future by helping you reconstruct this city and make it even more
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Reconstruction funds at centre of local elections, as ND makes final push for second round
PoliticsGreek Politicsregions remaining to be contested, as well as the city of Athens where the party’s candidate... as the capital and the second largest city, Thessaloniki. On Thursday morning, the prime minister made... PASOK, pressed Bakoyiannis to account for the cost of the controversial city centre
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Opposition lines up attack on government over wildfires with visits to affected areas
PoliticsGreek Politics, farmland, villages and the suburbs of the country’s third largest city, Patras. The leader of main... on the city of Patras, where the communist mayor Kostas Peletidis was singled out for attacks by government officials after criticising the centralised response to a blaze which encircled the city for 48
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