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ND's electoral bill put before MPs as PM mulls options for president
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMPs are due to begin debating on Wednesday the government’s proposed change to the electoral law, which is highly unlikely to gain the necessary level of support to avoid Greece’s next general election being held under the proportional representation sy...
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VIDEO - How could Greece put the EU recovery fund to best use?
AgoraIn the latest episode of the video discussions organised by Agenda Publica and MacroPolis as part of the Future is Blue newsletter, MacroPolis editor Nick Malkoutzis speaks Olivier Vardakoulias, an economist with WWF Greece, and Marcus Bensasson, a fina...
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PM announces extensive measures to build on recovery, counter inflation and put govt on track
PoliticsGreek PoliticsProjecting the message that “Greece is changing,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set out a range of measures at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) on Saturday that he hopes will allow his government to turn a new page and build new momentum o...
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Tsipras tries to put PM on spot by pushing for 800-euro min wage
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has gone on the offensive against the government, calling for the minimum wage to be raised to 800 euros and for the consumption tax on fuel to be lowered as counter-measures to confront the wave of inflation troubling Greek...
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ND, SYRIZA put squeeze on KINAL as centre-left party's poll rise continues
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing its recent impressive rise in the opinion polls, centre-left KINAL finds itself at the centre of political machinations as both New Democracy and SYRIZA attempt to impede its advance, which has created doubt about when the next elections will ...
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Series of failures provide opposition with platform to put pressure on PM
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlthough it is still largely absorbed by its leadership contest, which is not due to conclude until early September, recent events have prompted SYRIZA to take a more aggressive stance regarding Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s premiership. The left-wing party was...
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State braces for losses as bank divestment plan is put into action
EconomyBankingThe Hellenic Financial Stability Fund (HFSF) formally launched last week the process of divesting its small participation in the share capital of Eurobank. This set in motion HFSF's plan to dispose of its holdings in the four systemic banks, bringing to...
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Athens not put out by Turkey-Egypt rapprochement, but watching closely
PoliticsForeign PolicyAthens is assessing the results of the historic meeting between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Wednesday, in Ankara. The two leaders discussed ways to further repair the long-frozen ties between the...
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Extensive wildfires put extra strain on PM as he looks for clear path to TIF policy speech
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe dense smoke that settled over Attica in recent days captured, with brutal clarity, the scale of the destruction Greece is facing this summer due to an extensive outbreak of wildfires. The deaths of five frontline firefighting personnel in less than ...
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