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Fires cast growing shadow as new shipwreck probe is announced
PoliticsGreek Politicshouseholds with some relief from the cost-of-living crisis, using the extra fiscal space that has been.... Some commentators have made comparisons between the amounts the centre-right administration has... 15,000 hectares has been burned on Rhodes alone), has also prompted questions to be asked again
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Minister hangs on as failures leading to fatal hooligan raid further tarnish govt's image
PoliticsGreek Politicsevents. Citizens’ Protection Minister Yiannis Economou, who has only been in the position for a few... while Greece was battling numerous wildfires, has admitted that there was a huge failure on behalf of the police and security services, but he has not offered to step down. The government seems
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PM under pressure to account for destruction, as wildfires stoke anti-migrant sentiment
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the region of Evros has highlighted local tensions over migrant border crossings and raised questions.... Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has come under fire for remaining largely silent on the issue... it was tackling the fires. Impatience has been growing, however, for the prime minister to appear
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Government tries to mount defence against criticism about wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, the blaze in Evros, northeastern Greece, which has so far claimed 19 lives (another person... parliamentary group, Sokratis Famellos, argued that New Democracy has no excuses for the evident shortcomings... party president is elected in early September, accepted that the extreme weather has made the situation
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Newsletter 391 - 01/09/2023
failings in the upcoming elections. The government has already announced that it will increase spending... to fuel the anti-migrant sentiment that has been brewing in northeastern Greece, but which has also been evident in Greece’s mainstream political debate. In recent days, the spotlight has fallen
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Newsletter 393 - 15/09/2023
because of the flooding in central Greece, but whose significance has grown because of the growing... to the organisational shortfalls that Storm Daniel, and the wildfires earlier this summer, exposed. This has led... administration, while the model of direct awarding of contracts has been criticised in the case
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Newsletter 406 - 15/12/2023
that the opposition, rather than the government, has more to think about in the New Year. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged to crack down on sports-related violence, a promise he has now made.... Nevertheless, opinion poll after opinion poll has shown that despite Greeks being highly concerned about
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Government tries to contain fallout from breach of voters' data
PoliticsGreek Politicsaddresses it has laid the potentially damaging issue to rest. However, opposition parties... continues to insist that she has not done anything wrong. The matter is being investigated by Greece’s... that she has no political responsibility for the leak. Kerameus was appointed interior minister following
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Greek-Albanian deadlock over Beleri case no closer to being resolved
PoliticsForeign PolicyFredi Beleri, the ethnic Greek mayor-elect of the town of Himara, of vote-buying. The trial has angered the Greek government, which has threatened to block Albania's EU accession talks unless Beleri's... of innocence be respected. "The way Albania has handled this case has had a negative impact on its
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PM tweaks team as SYRIZA calls for ex-minister to face charges
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has made the adjustments to his team that were necessary because... has taken exception to media reports over the weekend which claimed that his wife, Mareva Grabowski... his wife, who he argues has been unfairly targeted over the last few years. The PM’s office called
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