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ND encounters objections over private universities and same-sex marriage
PoliticsGreek Politicsmarriage. Although the centre-right administration has yet to deliver draft legislation allowing gay couples to marry, and have full parental rights, it has recently restated its intention to do so... continues to have considerable sway in Greece and has forced numerous governments to adjust
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PM lines up talks with farmers, faces questions over housing crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicssubsidies and compensation that has led to farmers ramping up their protests over the last few days... concessions on farming fuel tax and electricity subsidies, according to reports. The fact that the PM has... or purchase a home. A study by Piraeus Bank found that the Greek market has a deficit of 212,000
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Newsletter 412 - 16/02/2024
has inflicted any permanent political damage on Mitsotakis or whether most ND voters... to what their peers in the EU have received.. Mitsotakis has been managing farmers’ expectations... and northern Greece. The reaction of opposition parties to the latest announcements has been dismissive
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Newsletter 418 - 29/03/2024
limiting the scope of the parliamentary inquiry, has created a sense among voters that New Democracy... be interpreted as guilt by association - hence the appeal to stability, which New Democracy has identified... for the government in this respect. There has also been competition between the opposition parties in recent days
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Kasselakis launches EP election campaign with all-out attack on Mitsotakis and ND
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has opted for an aggressive start to his first election campaign... in light of new knowledge that has emerged since it renewed its term with a solid 41 pct of the vote ten months ago. The SYRIZA leader listed the new evidence that has emerged on the Tempe rail crash
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Newsletter 421 - 19/04/2024
-nationalist Greek Solution seeks to make its mark as a rising force. New Democracy has unveiled its... voters, has included the controversial ethnic Greek-Albanian politician Fredi Beleri. The decision... was elected mayor of the ethnic Greek town of Himarra. Athens has made diplomatic attempts
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Rivalry between New Democracy and PASOK set for revival
PoliticsGreek Politicson Thursday which showed that support for the socialists has increased by almost four points since... between New Democracy and PASOK has closed by around 3 percentage points since last month. Support for ND stands at 22.5 pct, up half a point from September, while PASOK’s backing has risen to 15.3
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ND and SYRIZA contend with internal strife as PASOK advances
PoliticsGreek Politics. The spat between Mitsotakis and former PM Antonis Samaras, who has been critical of government policy, particularly vis a vis relations with Turkey, has become a main topic of coverage in the local media. It has also soured the mood within the conservative party’s parliamentary group, where Samaras still
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Newsletter 440 - 08/11/2024
to be directed to the domestic audience as much as his eventual interlocutors across the pond. The PM has... administration. The PM has also on occasion used the epithet “Trumpian” to attack his political... more ammunition to those who claim that the PM’s socially liberal agenda has drawn the focus away
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PASOK pushes back against PM's refusal to tax excess bank profits
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the government expects much from Greece’s lenders but that it has no plans to impose an extra... that his government is aiming to convince Greece’s European partners and the markets that the country has “left behind its difficult years.” The PM said that the government has to explain to citizens
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