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PM under pressure to account for destruction, as wildfires stoke anti-migrant sentiment
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the region of Evros has highlighted local tensions over migrant border crossings and raised questions.... Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has come under fire for remaining largely silent on the issue... it was tackling the fires. Impatience has been growing, however, for the prime minister to appear
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Government tries to mount defence against criticism about wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, the blaze in Evros, northeastern Greece, which has so far claimed 19 lives (another person... parliamentary group, Sokratis Famellos, argued that New Democracy has no excuses for the evident shortcomings... party president is elected in early September, accepted that the extreme weather has made the situation
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Newsletter 391 - 01/09/2023
failings in the upcoming elections. The government has already announced that it will increase spending... to fuel the anti-migrant sentiment that has been brewing in northeastern Greece, but which has also been evident in Greece’s mainstream political debate. In recent days, the spotlight has fallen
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Newsletter 393 - 15/09/2023
because of the flooding in central Greece, but whose significance has grown because of the growing... to the organisational shortfalls that Storm Daniel, and the wildfires earlier this summer, exposed. This has led... administration, while the model of direct awarding of contracts has been criticised in the case
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Kasselakis completes stunning victory, taking SYRIZA into uncharted territory
PoliticsGreek Politics35-year-old entrepreneur, who has spent all his adult life in the USA and has talked openly about... or upset with his rivals for allegedly pushing out former leader Alexis Tsipras. There has been.... It is also worth noting that Tsipras has invited the new party leader to meet him at his
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Newsletter 406 - 15/12/2023
that the opposition, rather than the government, has more to think about in the New Year. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged to crack down on sports-related violence, a promise he has now made.... Nevertheless, opinion poll after opinion poll has shown that despite Greeks being highly concerned about
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Greek-Albanian deadlock over Beleri case no closer to being resolved
PoliticsForeign PolicyFredi Beleri, the ethnic Greek mayor-elect of the town of Himara, of vote-buying. The trial has angered the Greek government, which has threatened to block Albania's EU accession talks unless Beleri's... of innocence be respected. "The way Albania has handled this case has had a negative impact on its
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PM tweaks team as SYRIZA calls for ex-minister to face charges
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has made the adjustments to his team that were necessary because... has taken exception to media reports over the weekend which claimed that his wife, Mareva Grabowski... his wife, who he argues has been unfairly targeted over the last few years. The PM’s office called
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Polls show drastic erosion of trust in institutions, but ND retaining political dominance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Greek public’s trust in state institutions has plummeted in the past five years, according... not trust the courts and judges has jumped from 33 percent in 2018 to 70 percent in 2024. The survey... the Greek public. The police force has seen an equally dramatic reversal in perceptions with trust
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PM tries to rally party, hoping to overcome past indiscretions on road to EP vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe prosecutor specifically assigned to the agency, who has to sign off each request... past resurfacing. Institutional approach The government has tried to put the spyware scandal story to bed several times over the last few years but it has always returned into public view, although
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