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New Democracy continues to court right-wing voters with defence package, identity politics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy has little to be complacent about, while rumblings from the conservative wing of the party... parliamentary party convenes to elect a new head. The PM’s pick, MP Apostolos Vesyropoulos, has already... candidate from the traditional wing of the party. Mitsotakis has promised to give the podium to any MP
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Athens tries to rekindle ties with North Macedonia after period of stasis
PoliticsForeign Policyagreement signed between Skopje and Ankara. The latter has provoked serious suspicions in Athens... that this agreement has been signed within the framework of NATO and with no intention to rile Athens.... On the other hand, however, the Greek government has not yet ratified three protocols
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ND, SYRIZA put squeeze on KINAL as centre-left party's poll rise continues
PoliticsGreek Politicshas created doubt about when the next elections will be held and what kind of government might... October. During the same period, support for ND has fallen by 4.3 points, while SYRIZA’s backing... and 19.4 pct Alexis Tsipras. All these numbers are clearly of great concern to ND and SYRIZA as KINAL has
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Newsletter 428 - 21/06/2024
the past few days has been on SYRIZA and PASOK amid talk of a potential alliance to create a new... Stefanos Kasselakis has already made it clear that he would challenge for any such position... prime ministers, and has been attracting some attention recently. Another figure being linked
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Newsletter 192 -01/02/2019
will be in the upcoming campaign. Tsipras said that this was a measure the government owed to “those who saw... at. Specifically, the comparison was made with Portugal, which has a yield that is eight times lower...-looking leader, much of his party sees things differently and has not changed much from its old ways
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Newsletter 252 -29/05/2020
. The announcement came as New Democracy found itself under pressure from SYRIZA over the measures it has announced.... The measure, which Tsipras described as “helicopter money”, would cost the budget 3.5 billion... credit line, which due to its inherent conditionality has been dubbed “another MoU”, evoking negative
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Newsletter 318 - 26/11/2021
healthcare workers and paramedics. Totalling 90 million euros, this is the only measure that had been... the government has already dedicated to mitigating the impact of inflation, especially on household... Mitsotakis that the government has already had to announce two successive increases to its emergency
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Newfound variety helps Greek winemakers enjoy exports boost
SocietyOne of the aims of Greece’s adjustment program has been to make the country more competitive, with a particular view towards boosting its exports. The main tool for this exercise has been the policy of internal devaluation, which has seen wages drop substantially. As a result, unit labour costs
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Island unrest puts PM in tough spot
PoliticsGreek Politicsof compromise in the near future. New Democracy’s relationship with the local governor has also been... but has represented the conservatives in the past, has led resistance to the construction of the detention centres and has shunned the government’s efforts to find common ground. Things came to a head
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PM focusses on fairness of tax bill, leaving limited space for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsworkers. The Finance Ministry has defended the measure against protests by lawyers, private doctors... for several years. The Greek side has already played down the possibility that these talks will lead... in bilateral relations, which has been evident for the past few months. The upcoming visit
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