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Inquiry into surveillance scandal begins as ND feeds speculation about change to election law
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDevelopment Fund (HRADF), Stergios Pitsiorlas, in which he expressed his disappointment at finding out that he... examined. One is a return to the 50-seat bonus for the winning party, which applied in the 2019... New Democracy introduced in 2020. Another option is to lower the threshold for winning a majority
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Newsletter 350 - 09/09/2022
to the 50-seat bonus for the winning party, which applied in the 2019 elections, rather than linking.... Another option is to lower the threshold for winning a majority. Under ND’s electoral law, the winning... finding its steps towards more normal activity after the restrictions imposed from November 2020
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Fitch improves outlook to positive, sees investment grade hinging on fiscal performance and banks
EconomyFitch got the schedule of rating reviews in the new year underway with an upgrade of Greece’s outlook to positive from stable, while it reaffirmed the rating at ‘BB’. Fitch was the first agency to upgrade Greece’s rating to ‘BB’ back in January 2020, ju...
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PBO sees 2024 growth of 2.5 pct hinging on RRF and investments
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) published on Monday its latest quarterly report in which it is broadly positive about the prospects of the Greek economy in 2024, though it does flag up concerns about the effects of persistent inflation, the implic...
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Coalition's proposal for PR electoral system unlikely to clinch supermajority
PoliticsGreek Politics. The coalition’s proposal centres on three key themes: · Scrapping the 50-seat bonus for the winning part... for the conservatives, at the next elections. Scrapping the bonus means that the winning party, which... the issue as not too long ago it also proposed the abolition of the 50-seat bonus for the winning
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ND mulls next tax cuts as it prepares to unveil new electoral law
PoliticsGreek Politicsrepresentation system that will award a bonus to the winning party. Unlike the existing system, which... to use a sliding scale so the bonus is linked to the winning party’s performance. “We can’t have a situation where the winning party gets 18 percent and gets the same bonus as it would if it gained 38
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The targets and deadlines in Greece's privatisation programme
EconomyProgrammewill be updated on a semi-annual basis. b) Announce binding bid dates for Piraeus (OLP) and Thessaloniki (OLTH... steps for the sale of regional airports at the current terms with the already selected winning... and share purchase agreements by October, while binding offers are expected in November and parliament
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Snap elections in Greece: The scenarios ahead
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the winning party would only need 35.6 percent to elect 151 of the 300 MPs. The former seems more... that beyond their opposition to austerity policies there is not a lot binding them. It is questionable... the euro played a significant part in preventing SYRIZA from winning the elections but many Greeks have
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Don't celebrate a French reconnection for EU just yet
Agorathe possibility of Le Pen, or someone like her, winning an election. “The prospect of a Le Pen presidency upsets... in working class areas, was a catalyst in Brexit without winning a single seat at a general... or will it break the spell binding the member states? These are just some of the immediate challenges facing
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Tsipras resigns, paves way for leadership contest at SYRIZA as left looks to regroup
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat Mitsotakis has won over, swinging the political balance in his favour for another four years.
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