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Podcast - Riding into the danger zone: Greece gets new jets
AgoraGreece recently received the first six state-of-the art fighter jets it has ordered from France, hoping that their arrival marks the start of an upgrade of its military capabilities, but also an improvement in its geopolitical standing. The Rafale plane...
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Implementation snags hang over ambitious post-Covid recovery plans
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s national plan to allocate EU Recovery & Resilience funds is moving apace at the planning stage, but appears to be stumbling at implementation. With the post-covid stimulus package emerging as more key to economic recovery than ever in light of ...
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ND tries to swerve fresh graft claims as EP scandals, phonetapping hang over budget debate
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe Qatargate scandal centred on PASOK MEP Eva Kaili may have given ruling New Democracy some respite from defending its administration against mounting evidence of a domestic spying operation, but an investigation by the EU prosecutor into one of its o...
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Budget primary surplus at 3.16 bln in December, missing target for full year by 443 mln
EconomyMacroeconomybillion euros and was below target by 611 million. Net revenues came to 50.96 billion euros, under... expenditure came to 44.20 billion, below target by 611 million euros. Interest payments declined YoY
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Erdogan's Hagia Sophia move adds to complexity, uncertainty of Greek-Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign PolicyMinister Nikos Dendias stressed, though, in an interview with Skai TV on Sunday: “We should avoid the danger of treating the Hagia Sophia issue as a Greek-Turkish one. It is not, it is not even an EU... sovereign rights with its drilling for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean,” Dendias said in his TV
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Restrictive leaders' debate produces little to move election needle
PoliticsGreek Politicswas “a danger to New Democracy, rather than democracy” and called for those involved in setting up... among pollsters is that the TV debate will not have much impact on the election result, especially... parties, even if it wants to. According to the latest survey by Marc for ANT-1 TV, made public just
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Opinion poll offers Mitsotakis encouragement in quest for majority
PoliticsGreek Politicson June 25. According to the Metron Analysis survey for Mega TV, 35.8 pct of respondents intend... Mitsotakis would be in no danger of not clinching a sizeable majority. The risk of ND falling below... on daytime TV chat shows with the aim of connecting with voters, particularly Greek women, who tend
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Rise of small parties creates pre- and post-election complications
PoliticsGreek Politicsto miss out. However, an opinion poll carried out by Metron Analysis for Mega TV suggests that MeRA25... will intensify and there is a danger that SYRIZA and PASOK could find themselves drowned out by more radical... for Skai TV, suggests that MeRA25 is still a long way off the 3 pct threshold and that seven parties
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Government comes out swinging as tense week, building up to Tempe protests, begins
PoliticsGreek Politicsdanger. However, in the meantime Georgiadis and Voridis are doing their leadership hopes no harm... for this week, as far as the government is concerned, by producing a typically combative TV performance... TV. “It is, in essence, a protest against Mitsotakis.” He added that the Tempe victims
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The nightmare of our choice
Agorabelieve the freight train may have been carrying unregistered flammable chemicals. In a TV interview... party. Only a couple of days after the protests, Mitsotakis gave a hastily-arranged TV interview... of Greeks feel the opposition parties are trying to exploit the Tempe tragedy. The biggest danger
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