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Renewed concern over East Med as Turkey aims to resume drilling
PoliticsForeign PolicyAnkara’s intention to begin again drilling works in the Eastern Mediterranean as well as its continuing aggressive tactics in the Aegean will be brought up for discussion during Wednesday’s EU Council of Foreign Affairs by Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias. Athens and Nicosia are in contact
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Newsletter 284 - 12/02/2021
messages coming from officials and the PM’s trip to Ikaria. The visit alone prompted some negative.... Given that Mitsotakis’s personal actions have been in the spotlight before, when he was recently... of the prime minister’s sense that the rules that apply to others do not do so to him. In an interview
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Mitsotakis defends #MeToo response amid acrimonious debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsis the administration’s relationship with the recently resigned national theatre director Dimitris Lignadis, who faces..., defending his government’s record on handling the #MeToo phenomenon and standing by Culture Minister Lina... part, Tsipras refused to be drawn by Mitsotakis’s accusations, distancing himself from the social
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Govt calls on local businesses and banks to free up capital for investment
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called on Greece’s entrepreneurs to invest in the country... pct, as promised in the run-up to the 2019 elections). Of course, the public’s expectations have... that Greece is due to receive from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility will be used
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Politicians have commissioned, and largely ignored, multiple reports on wildfires
Societythe first anniversary of Mati, in no small measure thanks to the public anger stemming from SYRIZA’s... burning on several fronts in Greece’s central and southern regions have destroyed close to 65,000... changed since 2019, and how far ND has gone in improving Greece’s wildfire preparedness. The political
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Fresh reshuffle speculation as ND centres on migration threat, response
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs normal political activity resumes following Parliament’s summer recess, attention is turning to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair on September 11... about the state apparatus’s response, it is clear that part of the population was not satisfied
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Newsletter 308 - 17/09/2021
PoliticsPM’s handouts spark snap poll expectationsGreek politics was dominated this week... rivals – SYRIZA in particular – as outdated and divisive. The tone and content of the government’s..., something that the party no doubt hoped to address with the weekend’s bonanza of measures. However
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PM seeks to leave ICU controversy behind as Tsipras ups stakes with snap election call
PoliticsGreek Politicsvotes of New Democracy MPs. Some commentators view Saturday’s debate as the start of the prelude... the limits of Greece’s public health system in dealing with the pandemic. Mitsotakis insisted that the study did not reach the PM’s office and that regardless of what it says, he had highlighted some
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Opposition cries foul on government's tax priorities
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis’s announcement of a permanent cut to the controversial ENFIA property tax has... on other fronts, Mitsotakis chose to make it a cornerstone of his government’s promise to cut taxes on the middle class. According to the prime minister’s statement, the 13 pct average cut
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Newsletter 333 - 01/04/2022
PoliticsSnap polls removed from table as ND’s ratings slide continuesPrime Minister Kyriakos... on Tuesday, Mitsotakis insisted that elections would be held towards the end of the government’s four-year... seats based on its share of the vote. Mitsotakis’s dismissal of the ideas of tinkering again
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