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Mitsotakis eyes majority in second vote as SYRIZA reels from crushing defeat
PoliticsGreek Politicselection, to be sworn in and then dissolved so second elections can take place. It has been... for Greek elections, although the turnout has been falling over the last couple of decades. The other... lead to Mitsotakis ending up with a slimmer advantage than he currently has. SYRIZA headaches However
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ND doubles down on tax as leaders target weak spots on electoral map
PoliticsGreek Politicsbeen arguing that the reliance on indirect taxation has been punishing low earners, while the outgoing government has been fighting the opposite corner. On Monday, which was a public holiday for many... of taxes. PASOK has been trying to craft an argument in favour of rebalancing the tax system, in which two
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Fires cast growing shadow as new shipwreck probe is announced
PoliticsGreek Politicshouseholds with some relief from the cost-of-living crisis, using the extra fiscal space that has been.... Some commentators have made comparisons between the amounts the centre-right administration has... 15,000 hectares has been burned on Rhodes alone), has also prompted questions to be asked again
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Minister hangs on as failures leading to fatal hooligan raid further tarnish govt's image
PoliticsGreek Politicsevents. Citizens’ Protection Minister Yiannis Economou, who has only been in the position for a few... while Greece was battling numerous wildfires, has admitted that there was a huge failure on behalf of the police and security services, but he has not offered to step down. The government seems
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PM under pressure to account for destruction, as wildfires stoke anti-migrant sentiment
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the region of Evros has highlighted local tensions over migrant border crossings and raised questions.... Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has come under fire for remaining largely silent on the issue... it was tackling the fires. Impatience has been growing, however, for the prime minister to appear
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Government tries to mount defence against criticism about wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, the blaze in Evros, northeastern Greece, which has so far claimed 19 lives (another person... parliamentary group, Sokratis Famellos, argued that New Democracy has no excuses for the evident shortcomings... party president is elected in early September, accepted that the extreme weather has made the situation
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Newsletter 391 - 01/09/2023
failings in the upcoming elections. The government has already announced that it will increase spending... to fuel the anti-migrant sentiment that has been brewing in northeastern Greece, but which has also been evident in Greece’s mainstream political debate. In recent days, the spotlight has fallen
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Newsletter 393 - 15/09/2023
because of the flooding in central Greece, but whose significance has grown because of the growing... to the organisational shortfalls that Storm Daniel, and the wildfires earlier this summer, exposed. This has led... administration, while the model of direct awarding of contracts has been criticised in the case
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Kasselakis completes stunning victory, taking SYRIZA into uncharted territory
PoliticsGreek Politics35-year-old entrepreneur, who has spent all his adult life in the USA and has talked openly about... or upset with his rivals for allegedly pushing out former leader Alexis Tsipras. There has been.... It is also worth noting that Tsipras has invited the new party leader to meet him at his
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Newsletter 406 - 15/12/2023
that the opposition, rather than the government, has more to think about in the New Year. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged to crack down on sports-related violence, a promise he has now made.... Nevertheless, opinion poll after opinion poll has shown that despite Greeks being highly concerned about
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