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PM bats away surveillance claims, looks to final pre-election handouts
PoliticsGreek Politicsand political corruption in Greece, most notably resulting in the jailing of late defence minister Akis... that the public trusts the government on defence and foreign policy issues more than in most other areas... of reporting on the surveillance issue, including publishing the names of more than 100 people
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Parties give first hint of strategies in reaction to poll announcement
PoliticsGreek Politicsforming a coalition if he failed to secure a win in the first round, his Minister of State Akis Skertsos..., claiming that it has the potential to produce a government with the support of more than a third... less than 10 percent of the vote he prefers to stay in opposition rather than become a junior partner
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ND doubles down on tax as leaders target weak spots on electoral map
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreeks, ND’s chief spokesman Akis Skertsos posted on Twitter a hypothetical example which he claimed showed that the wealthy would benefit more from a VAT cut than lower earners, adding... no clear policy other than raising taxes across the board to fund uncosted campaign pledges, an accusation
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Newsletter 445 - 13/12/2024
to Skai radio on Monday, Minister of State Akis Skertsos tried to defend the government’s position... the conservatives win the next national vote but with fewer than 151 seats in Parliament. Given... pushed up the debt load in the case of Greece to more than 209 pct of GDP in 2020, and the primary
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Government pledges more reforms, but economy set to prove deciding factor in 2025
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter suffering a more turbulent year than it expected, the government is aiming to regain its... in Parapolitika weekly over the weekend, State Minister Akis Skertsos set out the government’s key aims... is to further increase the total incomes that are declared by Greeks to more than 175 billion euros
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Why doesn't Tsipras just cut defence spending?
Agoraassociated with the now jailed former Defence Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos. A large part of Greece... the crisis began, more than 70 percent of the defence budget was used to pay staff but, according... been trimmed down, NATO spending requirements mean that it is required to invest more than 2
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Greece reaches for its pills
Agoraof this was condensed (if that is the right word for something that last more than 20 hours) into Wednesday’s... laid bare. At the moment, there is no case against any of those accused other than the statements given... anything suspect about the actions of PASOK minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos. Several years later
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Mitsotakis mixes old hands and technocrats to stamp reformist bent on cabinet
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe 51 ministers sworn in on Tuesday are more than the small, flexible team many expected, the 21 mostly... this role is Akis Skertsos, who was director general of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV... than a technocrat, he can boast that the November 17 terrorist organisation was arrested under his
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Tsipras aiming to guide SYRIZA towards new territory in opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicswill stand unopposed. Should Tsipras win, it will give him an even stronger mandate than SYRIZA’s better than expected result in the national elections to shape the party as he sees fit. It seems certain... at the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV), Akis Sketros, as Mitsotakis’s chief of staff as being
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Govt examines how to ease out of lockdown as PM rules out snap elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s chief of staff, Akis Skertsos. They are working out how and when Greece... that the measures would be relaxed as of May 4, rather than May 11 as had originally been suggested. Several... in the government’s approach. Over the last few days, opposition MPs have submitted more than 100 questions
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