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Lacklustre performance in EP elections raises key questions for mainstream parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsand order and national security. SYRIZA If there is one aspect of the results that takes the heat off... secured just 7 seats in the European Parliament, one fewer than in the last elections in 2019. Greeting... headed off any question of a snap election, stating that he saw it as his party’s task to get
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Mitsotakis ousts critical MP as signs of unrest within ruling party start to surface
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEuropean Parliament elections, was underlined by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s decision to oust one... at archaeological sites. Salmas was one of 11 lawmakers from the ruling party who recently tabled... borrowers from being auctioned off by distressed debt funds. The MPs accused funds and servicers
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Jockeying over presidential nomination points to parties' longer-term political goals
PoliticsGreek Politicsis the one dominating the political centre in Greece – a space that the social democrats want to compete... in joining forces with SYRIZA over this issue, arguing that Mitsotakis is the one that needs to make... and others on the left into power. Opinion polls One of PASOK’s main difficulties is being able
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Newsletter 447 - 17/01/2025
. This is a similar strategy to the one that paid off last year. The markets’ view on Greece’s debt and fiscal... off any announcement pending Mitsotakis’s decision. The social democrats wanted to see first... nominate a presidential candidate from a different political space or one, as in the case
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Nightmare on Democracy Street
Agorafrom its economic nightmare but its political and social one may be just about to begin. When a group... there. The attack took place on a road named after democracy – the very same democracy that has been pushed... songs. With one swing of a switchblade, Greece’s tormented past caught up with its troubled present
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Spain’s economic recovery languishes amid graft scandals
Agorawork conditions in the long-term. As a consequence, she had to move back in with her parents. “One... department suggested to her and another candidate that the one who would reduce her salary the most... of pregnancies only in cases of rape or serious physical health risks to the mother. Becoming one of the most
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Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
Agora, Blanc, Beur” team that lifted the trophy. Greece knows very well that football victories promise... that the sum can be greater than the parts. For Greece, which has one of the poorest and most corrupt... is also a powerful one. In a country of oligarchs, vested interests and slow change those who buck
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Friction over property tax exposes cracks in Greek coalition's strategy
PoliticsGreek Politicsfrom the remaining pool of 200 MPs. The government said that only one of the eight MPs (PASOK’s... of homeowners, including those with empty houses. For instance one of the other MPs that was replaced, New... of arguments within the New Democracy parliamentary group. One conservative MP was forced to apologise
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Coalition edges towards 180 votes for president but close to exhausting resources
PoliticsGreek Politics. The problem for the New Democracy-PASOK coalition is that it is very close to exhausting the pool... if they amount to more than one or two. Almost all of these lawmakers would be going from clearly being... the government. One of the party’s MPs, Niki Founta, quit just before the vote, leaving DIMAR with nine
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Newsletter 62 - 12/02/2016
Pierre Moscovici added that pension reform is the most obvious example of a very difficult... confidence. “A plan built on over-optimistic assumptions will soon cause Grexit fears to resurface one again..., according to one new poll, Tsipras is banking on voters supporting his approach. However, the mounting
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