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Newsletter 336 - 06/05/2022
income below 60,000 euros. Mitsotakis decided to bring forward the unveiling of the government’s... and the opening of New Democracy’s annual party conference on Friday in response to mounting political... highly critical of what it interprets as a reluctance on New Democracy’s part to impose a windfall tax
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Newsletter 337 - 13/05/2022
. At the ND conference, which concluded on Sunday, Mitsotakis said that his administration’s motto... it is vital that his party’s supporters treat the first ballot as if it were a final and decisive one. With the latest energy relief package fresh in voters’ minds, Mitsotakis talked up ND’s social
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Reshuffle speculation follow snap polls rumours as ND enjoys ratings bounce
PoliticsGreek Politicsto prepare his administration for the election campaign. The positive publicity surrounding Mitsotakis’s... by anonymous comments by some government officials. However, the PM’s aides insisted that he remains... of the media’s usual speculation about the date of the next elections, given that Greek government’s
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PM brushes aside spying scandal, lowers expectations for handouts
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis against the PM’s stated desire to abolish the solidarity levy on incomes and raise pensions..., fiscal space is limited. Clearly, the PM’s intention was to draw a veil over the phone-tapping scandal... was under the aegis of the Prime Minister’s office, was spying on one of Mitsotakis’s main rival
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Newsletter 351 - 16/09/2022
his first bid to impress and convince the Greek public ahead of next year’s general elections when... Democracy’s other rivals. The speech at TIF, along with its contents, provided a momentary distraction... been targeted. PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis spoke at TIF on Wednesday, ahead of SYRIZA’s Alexis
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Opposition keeps pressure on Mitsotakis as surveillance issue sends ripples through ND
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMonday’s TV interview, in which PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis angrily dismissed the latest round... as by the strong position taken on the matter by the European Parliament’s PEGA committee. A presentation of the preliminary findings of the committee’s investigation this week was accompanied by a call to national
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PM offers uniformed personnel bonus as surveillance bill attracts more criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicsto show the government’s support for the force and win over right-wing voters. Mitsotakis said... with the country’s police and coast guard – a relationship that Mitsotakis has tried to cultivate during his time in office. Tuesday’s announcement was not the first time that the current government has sought
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Newsletter 362 - 09/12/2022
PoliticsSurveillance issue refuses to go away despite ND’s effortsThe government’s hopes of laying... on Thursday, during the leaders’ debate over the government’s draft law. Addressing the plenary session...) raised concerns about the bill’s content. ADAE president Christos Rammos said the provision which
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ND tries to swerve fresh graft claims as EP scandals, phonetapping hang over budget debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsauthorities, claiming that his wife was not involved in the shadowy dealings. Doubt was cast on Giorgi’s attempt to exonerate Kaili by official voting records from the EP’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home... that a colleague from the European Socialists withdrew her vote in exchange for Kaili’s when the discrepancy
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Constitutional row follows political storm over prosecutor's intervention in surveillance probe
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the agency’s powers stem directly from the Constitution. The experts also stated that only the courts.... The intervention by legal experts adds weight to the reaction of opposition parties, who had condemned Dogiakos’s opinion as an interference in ADAE’s investigatory powers. SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras promoted
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