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Athens encouraged by agreement on EU's Strategic Compass
PoliticsForeign PolicyRussia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered momentous changes in the Euro-Atlantic security strategy... Biden. The Strategic Compass sets out the EU’s long-term strategy on security and defence policy for the next five to 10 years. The Compass has previously provoked some pushback from the bloc’s eastern
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New Democracy's lead narrows amid cost-of-living worries, mixed feelings over Ukraine
PoliticsGreek Politics. The survey by Marc for ANT1 TV shows that ND’s lead over SYRIZA has shrunk by 2 percentage points in just ten days. The conservative party’s ratings have slid from 32.5 pct to 30.8 pct, while left... an acceleration in the erosion of ND’s popularity, with the governing party dropping 4 points over the past
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ND struggles to shift spotlight away from wiretapping fallout
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy’s efforts to shift attention away from the spying scandal are being tripped up... that Greece’s imminent exit from the enhanced surveillance of its lenders and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair next month will prove welcome distractions
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Parties tussle over scope of surveillance probe as latest poll puts Mitsotakis in frame
PoliticsGreek Politicsto account for the surveillance of a politician and a journalist by Greece’s national security... parliamentary inquiry. The government’s battle is now to frame the scope of the hearings so as to shift...-tapping. A total of 142 opposition MPs voted for the centre-left party’s motion (one was absent). Only
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Inquiry into surveillance scandal begins as ND feeds speculation about change to election law
PoliticsGreek Politicsand calling snap elections. A session of Parliament’s regular Institutions and Transparency Committee... questions. The former head of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), the PM’s ex-general secretary... in relation to the agency’s activities and explaining why the leader of Greece’s third political party
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Newsletter 361 - 02/12/2022
. A key figure in the phonetapping affair, the Prime Minister’s former general secretary and nephew, Grigoris Dimitriadis, appeared before Parliament’s institutions and transparency committee... involved in the unit. Dimitriadis is said to have laid the blame for EYP’s surveillance of PASOK
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Surveillance and Qatargate threaten to overshadow budget debate
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe scheduled debate over next year’s budget kicks off today with political parties distracted... Staikouras presented the draft budget three weeks ago, the last of New Democracy’s current term, he... and to make good on their pledge to distribute the “growth dividend” in the lead-up to next year’s
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Newsletter 365 - 13/01/2023
school pupils start their university entrance exams in the summer. The PM’s decision to move... that SYRIZA’s sole strategy is to cultivate a toxic climate to mask a fundamental lack... for information regarding wiretap allegations. The firm’s in-house legal counsel contacted Dogiakos, who
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Newsletter 391 - 01/09/2023
appearance at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), the government’s handling of wildfires continued... of the worst summers in Greece’s history in terms of the damage caused by wildfires. It is estimated...’s complaints. He cited climate change as the main reason for the seriousness of the wildfires
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Newsletter 394 - 22/09/2023
to be in the driving seat ahead of Sunday’s ballot after former state minister Nikos Pappas – one... fourth with 12,787 (8.6 pct) votes. Should all of Pappas’s voters follow his lead, Kasselakis... of Tsakalotos’s supporters transferred to her, it still might not be enough to tip the balance in her favour
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