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Mitsotakis counters Erdogan claims at UN, makes case for cooperation
PoliticsForeign Policy, but also to draw his government’s red lines vis a vis Turkey’s revisionist policies, making it clear.... The Greek premier also responded to the grave accusations made by Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip... people and not only Turkey’s political leadership. He said the two peoples are not enemies and both
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Election speculation gathers steam while surveillance claims mount
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe census was completed. According to the minister’s calculations, this would make it possible... intelligence service EYP. The story presents the only visible threat to ND’s popularity, although to date it remains of marginal concern to the public. Last weekend’s edition of Documento featured what
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Mitsotakis eyes majority in second vote as SYRIZA reels from crushing defeat
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy party’s resounding win in Sunday’s elections and will, instead, lead the conservatives... back the mandate on Monday. This will pave the way for the new Parliament, as voted for in Sunday’s... the conservatives won all but one voting region, New Democracy’s main task in the second vote will be ensuring
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Newsletter 397 - 13/10/2023
of the natural disasters which followed its comfortable re-election in this summer’s national vote have..., where former ND officials are ahead of the party’s current picks. On the municipal level, New... of the vote in the first round, however the party’s picks for Athens and Thessaloniki must still battle it out
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Parties gear up for vote on bill permitting private universities
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThis Friday’s vote in Parliament on the government’s university reform bill provides the main... to be debated by Parliament’s full assembly this week before the vote on Friday. As things stand... by leftist SYRIZA’s strong opposition to the reform, especially given that PASOK will be competing
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Government tries to contain fallout from breach of voters' data
PoliticsGreek Politics. Assimakopoulou announced on Friday that she would not be standing as a candidate in this summer’s EP vote... continues to insist that she has not done anything wrong. The matter is being investigated by Greece’s... on Friday that Interior Ministry general secretary Michalis Stavrianoudakis and New Democracy’s secretary
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PM tweaks team as SYRIZA calls for ex-minister to face charges
PoliticsGreek Politics. Bratakos’s bureaucratic duties will be taken on by Stelios Koutnatzis, who will become Mitsotakis’s general secretary after serving previously as the general secretary for legal and parliamentary issues. However, Bratakos also served as a intermediary between the PM’s office and the ruling party
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Mitsotakis underlines support for MEP Beleri as field for PASOK leadership vote widens
PoliticsGreek Politicson New Democracy’s ticket for the June 9 vote and was comfortably elected as an MEP by the party’s supporters. Mitsotakis’s decision to add Beleri, who has a previous conviction for arms smuggling in Greece, to his party’s list of candidates was seen as an attempt by the PM to appeal to right-wing
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Opposition takes aim at PM's inner circle over subsidy fraud as scandal halts ND rebound
PoliticsGreek Politicsgrabbed the public’s attention, with polling suggesting that the revelations have put a stop to New Democracy’s recovery efforts. Despite the government’s pledges to crack down on the large-scale fraud in the payment of EU agricultural subsidies uncovered by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO
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Newsletter 478 - 03/10/2025
PoliticsInterventions from unions, EU prosecutor add to aggravationLabour unions and Europe’s top prosecutor complicated the government’s week as opinion polls continued to show that although... office’s commitment to investigating corruption scandals such as OPEKEPE and Tempe. She pressed
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