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Newsletter 339 - 27/05/2022
Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s highly publicised trip to the USA last week appeared to have a positive impact on the government’s ratings this week, but opinion polls also made it clear that as the publicity... Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s visit to Washington, the resurgent tension with Turkey and the latest round
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PM burnishes conservative credentials with focus on day-to-day issues, law and order
PoliticsGreek Politicshis message on the issues he believes will swing the vote. After a week in which New Democracy’s... also pledges to fight what he calls the “deep state”, which he hints is standing in the way... such as the cost of living, healthcare and law and order. He credited ND’s initiatives at EU level for creating
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Saving Angela Merkel with the help of Alexis Tsipras
Agorain the early hours of the Brussels meeting to praise two bilateral agreements that had been reached between... immediately be brought to an airport and flown back to either Spain or Greece. Can such a bilateral..., the implementation of the new bilateral agreement between Greece and Germany on registered asylum seekers
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Tsipras and Mitsotakis cheer Macron win, hope to benefit
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe victory of Emmanuel Macron in France’s presidential election as a potential boost for their political hopes. Tsipras tweeted shortly after it emerged that Macron had beaten far-right rival Marine Le Pen by 66 to 34 percent that the centrist politician’s victory was a “breath of fresh air for France
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Newsletter 387 - 30/06/2023
PoliticsMitsotakis re-elected, Tsipras beaten and far right resurgentSunday’s election delivered... a fatal blow to Alexis Tsipras’s leadership of SYRIZA and ushered three new fringe parties in Parliament, boosting the House’s populist and far-right contingent. Greek voters placed Mitsotakis
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Newsletter 398 - 20/10/2023
winning seven of Greece’s 13 regional authorities in the first round, Prime Minister Kyriakos... was soundly beaten by Dimitris Kouretas, a candidate put forward by centre-left PASOK and supported by main opposition party SYRIZA. Kouretas took around 60 pct of the votes in Sunday’s run-off ballot, which
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An unfounded argument leaves Greece in limbo
Agoraand sealed the country’s fate were defined by the limitations that the decision makers were facing... between all the involved parties over Greece’s fiscal targets from 2018 onwards. Last May, the Greek... from the head of the European department Poul Thomsen and Maurice Obstfeld, who heads the IMF’s
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Samaras shoots, Samaras scores!
Agora“Samaras rescues Greece” – it’s the headline the prime minister and many in his office would have cherished. But Giorgos Samaras, the striker without a club, has beaten premier Antonis to the title... as Greece’s 2-1 win over Ivory Coast. However, nobody is under the illusion that in a country still
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Newsletter 68 - 01/04/2016
25,000 euros). The government’s plan envisages a unified tax scale for salary earners, pensioners... readmission agreement The implementation of the European Union’s agreement with Turkey on the return... system. New Democracy also tabled the next day a proposal for a parliamentary inquiry into last year’s
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Newsletter 488 - 12/12/2025
Greece’s government and protesting farmers has dominated the political agenda this week, escalating... evolved into a test of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s authority, with implications for party.... The week opened with dramatic scenes in Crete, where farmers occupied one of the country’s busiest
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