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Great Expectations: Is Greece 2.0 hitting the target?
EconomyFeaturesFunding from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility has been central to shaping expectations... the programme is living up to its promise, or whether critics are right to question the government’s... a crucial role in rehabilitating the country’s image as a safe and attractive investment destination
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PM attempts to regroup, shift focus after testing week over Tempe crash
PoliticsGreek Politicsdevelopments behind him by continuing to tour the country this week ahead of the New Democracy’s party... theories regarding the train crash, which killed 57 people and left others with serious injuries. ND’s... up the causes and responsibilities linked to last year’s train accident. The PM insists that he gave
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PM tries to rally party, hoping to overcome past indiscretions on road to EP vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAt New Democracy’s three-day party conference, which concluded on Sunday, Prime Minister Kyriakos... the Predator software on Androualakis’s mobile phone. The 2022 law requires the plenary of ADAE board... that the decision does not just rest with the watchdog’s president, Christos Rammos. Last September
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Management of RRF funds sparks new political tension
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s use of the funds available via the RRF has become a contentious political issue after... transformation segment of Greece’s RRF-backed scheme, also known as Greece 2.0. More than 600 technology projects... in loans from the EU’s Covid recovery facility. SYRIZA and PASOK chose to vote “present”, thereby
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Newsletter 422 - 26/04/2024
PoliticsND leads drive to exclude far-right party from EP voteThe contest for this summer’s... with defrauding voters based on evidence provided by the party’s leader Vassilios Stigas. The Supreme Court... that there is concern among some New Democracy officials that the centre-right party’s share
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Mitsotakis focuses on next steps as Kasselakis becomes embroiled in new internal row
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is aiming to refocus his government’s efforts on delivering..., education and entrepreneurship will be discussed at the meeting. The government’s intention is to show that it is resuming normal service after being knocked off its stride by New Democracy’s
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Opposition pledges no let-up on surveillance affair as watchdog joins Supreme Court critics
PoliticsGreek Politicsofficials by Greece’s intelligence service EYP, dismissing evidence of a potential interaction between... SyntagmaWatch.gr in which he countered the Supreme Court’s reasoning. The ADAE chair insisted that, contrary to the court’s ruling, all applications for surveillance warrants should be backed up
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PM banks on restoration and compensation healing Attica fire wounds
PoliticsGreek Politicsreached the Greek capital’s northern suburbs, by unveiling a plan to restore the damage done to Athens’s natural surroundings, as well as the property of dozens of the city’s residents. Prime Minister... stretched over some 30 kilometres. The opposition’s criticism has focused on possible operational
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Androulakis well-placed to retain PASOK leadership as Doukas sneaks into run-off ballot
PoliticsGreek Politicsleadership next Sunday after this Sunday’s first round almost produced a surprise result. Androulakis was the favourite to win Sunday’s vote, according to the opinion polls. And the Cretan politician lived up..., followed by Michalis Katrinis on 6 pct and Nadia Giannakopoulou on 2.2 pct. Geroulanos’s strong
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Samaras expulsion casts shadow over New Democracy as SYRIZA prepares for leadership polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsto launch a rival grouping. New Democracy’s ethics committee rubber-stamped PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s... conclusion”. Samaras claimed that he had said nothing new in Sunday’s newspaper interview which provoked a furious reaction from the PM’s office, implying that the current leadership had been looking
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