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EU funds seen as cushioning Covid-19 impact, giving govt fiscal space
PoliticsGreek Politicsavailable to Greece from the proposed recovery fund, which would amount to an estimated 32 billion... of the funds available from the EU. The panel is headed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Christopher
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Newsletter 311 - 08/10/2021
, as they pushed up from 331 billion euros in the end of 2019 to an estimated 350 billion euros... representation system that will award bonus seats to the winning party.
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Govt stands firm on 'no lockdown' message, pins hopes on vaccination surge
PoliticsGreek Politicsadmissions averaging 400 over the past week, and 99 pct of Covid ICUs occupied. An estimated one in five... of MEP Nikos Androulakis. Androulakis’s chances of winning the runoff over former PM George
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More fiscal space emerges for new energy relief package as parties jostle for support
PoliticsGreek Politicsa supplementary budget allowing a 2-billion-euro increase in spending this year. It is estimated that just... the winning party and Mr Androulakis’s party, will he be in a position to determine who becomes prime
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Parties balanced finely as build-up to next elections gathers pace
PoliticsGreek Politicselections, it is estimated that at least 44 pct of the vote would be needed for either a single party..., with the winning party receiving bonus seats, around 38 pct of the vote would be needed for a majority
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Newsletter 341 - 10/06/2022
, it is estimated that at least 44 pct of the vote would be needed for either a single party to gain... in Parliament also looks a longshot at the moment. If a second ballot is held, with the winning party
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Mitsotakis makes direct play for PASOK voters as SYRIZA questions opinion polls
PoliticsGreek Politicscould alter the behaviour of voters. Tsipras called on the estimated 440,000 new voters who tend...New Democracy appears confident that winning over wavering centrist voters, rather than seeking a formal coalition with PASOK, is the tactic that will secure the party another term in government
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Mitsotakis clinches big majority in second election, but small parties could complicate matters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis was re-elected as Prime Minister with a convincing win on Sunday as his party kept up its impressive showing in the May 21 elections by taking an estimated 40.5 pct of the vote and winning a comfortable majority of seven seats in the 300-seat Greek Parliament, according
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Mitsotakis primes public opinion for potential compromise with Turkey
PoliticsGreek Politicsevasion is estimated at 8-10 billion euros annually and that half of this is deemed recoverable. Finally...In his first primetime domestic TV interview since winning re-election, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis suggested that he is seeking a comprehensive settlement with Turkey on longstanding disputes
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New Democracy considers adjusting course after losses to right and centre
PoliticsGreek Politicsaccount for an estimated 10.5 pct of the conservatives’ losses. Overall, ND retained the lead among...New Democracy’s slump in the European Parliament election has set in motion a strategy rethink, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis tasked with winning back voters on the right and centre
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