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Parties gear up for battle over pandemic media funding amid more warnings about press freedom
PoliticsGreek Politicsinformation has become available. A heated debate is expected on what has become a set piece of political... in the controversial auction for broadcast licenses in 2017. Both sides have at various times accused one another... that they will support an inquiry, making it a certainty that it will go ahead. Media freedom One subject
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Mitsotakis hopes tax bill tweaks will calm reactions in push to jump-start stalled reform agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicschanges. One piece of legislation that will not be discussed by the cabinet is the bill recognising... as a tour of the regions, targeting in particular the constituencies of recent defectors. One
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PM gears up for communications drive as PASOK marks 50 years
PoliticsGreek Politicswill deliver the annual set-piece speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair, to mark the opening... is considering announcing that social security contributions will be reduced by one percentage point next... about the party going forward. More than 40 pct (42.8) would like to see PASOK become one of the two
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Mitsotakis looks to last-minute announcements to top up lean TIF offerings
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be one of the leanest economic packages of his administration. As Mitsotakis puts the final touches to his set-piece address due to be delivered on Saturday, leaks to the media have sketched out a set... the government was fighting a vote of no-confidence sparked by a report in one of his newspapers
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Newsletter 452 - 21/02/2025
. The fluid landscape is captured by two new opinion polls, one for GPO that sees ND support falling to 24.8... since January, and PASOK at 13.3 pct, also losing roughly one point. PASOK has not been able to reduce... expectations on accounting handling of certain revenues. In another piece of positive fiscal data, the linking
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Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPASOK and To Potami. Now, one of his former allies and most active ministers, has decided to launch...Former Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He
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Bond issue decision expected as clock ticks down
PoliticsGreek Politicsin one go should not face any extra interest or penalties, while the remaining debtors should be given... in September 2015, when then-Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis asked local authorities to list... Accounting Office because of fiscal concerns. It has been revived under the current Interior Minister Panos
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Tsipras facing decision over timing of vote on Prespes Agreement
PoliticsGreek Politicsfrom the party. One of those deputies, Thanassis Papachristopoulos, has stated his intention... that the Interior Ministry is asking for an extra 60 million euros from the Finance Ministry to carry out... to discuss election issues. Interior Minister Alexis Haritsis has reportedly stepped up his meetings
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PM seeks to douse snap election talk, points to October polls
PoliticsGreek Politicselections proves a good one for SYRIZA (i.e. a defeat of five points or less), the prime minister... fuelled on Monday by an amendment submitted to Parliament by the Interior Ministry. It aims... a parliamentary majority. The rule had been introduced in 2014 but the Interior Ministry argues
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Mitsotakis starts second term, prepares to name cabinet and launch reforms amid far-right rise
PoliticsGreek Politicsover the coming weeks. One will relate to the economy while the other will represent the next step... with responsibility of overseeing the government’s role in Parliament. Former Interior Minister Makis Voridis... to Education, which Niki Kerameus will leave to take over as the new interior minister. Former Citizens
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