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Androulakis receives strong mandate for renewal at KINAL
PoliticsGreek Politicsminister George Papandreou in Sunday’s run-off vote. Androulakis took 68 pct of the vote in the contest against his more senior and experienced rival. The MEP had also won the previous Sunday’s first round... council in 2001. In March 2013, he was elected secretary of the party’s political council and a year
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KINAL edges towards more central role in political developments
PoliticsGreek Politicselections. He noted that New Democracy’s ratings have dropped significantly over the past months... an alliance, at a minimum, with KINAL and Yanis Varoufakis’s MERa25. The prospect of the Communist Party... democratic forces. “PASOK (KINAL’s predecessor) lost a large part of its electoral power not because
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Inflation triggers political machinations, move to increase budget spending
PoliticsGreek Politicsand businesses but also to stop the party’s slide in opinion polls. Finance Minister Christos Staikouras revealed on Wednesday that an adjustment to this year’s economic plan is being prepared and will be tabled in Parliament shortly. He explained that the intervention will increase this year’s
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Under increasing domestic pressure, govt awaits EU signs for response to energy security threat
PoliticsGreek PoliticsRussia’s decision to act on its threat to cut off gas flows to Poland and Bulgaria in a row over sanctions has sharpened the government’s focus on the security of national energy supplies... via the Yamal pipeline after the two countries refused to comply with Moscow’s demands for payment
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Electricity price shock, pressure on phone-tapping take shine off surveillance exit
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWithin hours of the government celebrating Greece’s formal exit from the post-bailout enhanced... in their name” and marked Greece’s return to the mainstream of European and global politics. He went on to list what he sees as his government’s biggest accomplishments, including lower unemployment
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Scandal erodes support for ND, complicates path to elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s efforts to focus attention on its fight against the cost-of-living crisis continue... the government’s latest package to ease the pressure on households, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis underlined on Thursday his administration’s intention to “stand by every Greek” during the challenging
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Surveillance hearings in Athens and Brussels highlight contrasting approaches to issue
PoliticsGreek Politicsdescribed them as “a concerted cover-up operation”, while PASOK said it showed the government’s intentions to keep facts in the dark. It was the government’s majority’s objections to key witnesses... to call the PM’s former general secretary Grigoris Dimitriadis, who acted as the political supervisor
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Govt Covid record questioned, as report highlights disparities in hospital death rates
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA scientific paper on Covid mortality in Greece’s hospitals has prompted a fresh round of questioning of the government’s claims of success in handling the pandemic, as well as allegations...’s confidence, as a fresh simulation appears to show the conservatives squeaking through
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Frustrated Androulakis rounds off surveillance inquiry as issue fails to gain traction
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the questioning of PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis by MPs. The opposition politician’s appearance coincided with yet another opinion poll suggesting that the dent in New Democracy’s ratings... the panel on Friday after his and his party’s efforts to draw attention to what they believe is an abuse
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Opposition eyes continuation of wiretapping probe by other means
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe final stage of Parliament’s investigation into the wiretapping affair played out in somewhat... Intelligence Service’s (EYP) monitoring of PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis last year. As is often the case, New Democracy, which held the majority on the panel, delivered its own report on the inquiry’s
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