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PM sees stance on defence issues as vote winner for ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsfrom taking part in this year’s elections, which SYRIZA feels Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is trying to turn into a contest about each party’s patriotism. Mitsotakis and SYRIZA leader Alexis... in decades gone by. Tsipras took exception to these claims and defended SYRIZA’s record. He pointed out
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Judicial row erupts over election legislation as poll points to ND recovery
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSunday, the election campaign has been overshadowed by a fresh row over the government’s efforts... to get around the ban on convicts running for Parliament, as well as the government’s recent... the Supreme Court’s plenary rather than its first section decide whether each party’s leadership fulfils
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On campaign trail, PM promises higher pay as SYRIZA wavers over MEP assault claims
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be a close race in just over a month’s time. On Wednesday it was the prime minister’s turn... on the defensive over his party’s response to sexual assault charges against one of their MEPs. Speaking from... paying lower taxes and the country now close to regaining investment grade. Mitsotakis listed his party’s
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Tsipras appeals to PASOK over coalition, but ND appears to be in driving seat
PoliticsGreek Politicsto power in one form or another. Following the unveiling of SYRIZA’s 11-point manifesto this week... country, Tsipras gave an interview to ANT-1 TV on Thursday night. He dismissed the government’s claims that the opposition party’s proposals would blow a hole in Greece’s public finances, insisting
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Tax policy propelled to top of agenda for second elections
PoliticsGreek Politicson PASOK’s economic programme. The socialists have been hitting back at claims by the conservatives that they are risking Greece’s competitiveness by pursuing a secret agenda of tax increases. New... to fund their economic programme. The socialists, who came third in May’s elections, have found
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Newsletter 383 - 02/06/2023
to overtake SYRIZA. A third, less significant, threat to ND’s result is the possibility of right-wing..., particularly as details begin to emerge about the upstart party’s support base. After expending... the centre-left party’s tax policies. On Tuesday, it attacked PASOK over its plans to increase dividends
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Government launches new round of legislation with diaspora vote bill
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHaving set out his government’s policy goals for the next four years, and sailed through Saturday’s confidence vote, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s focus is on the new administration’s first legislative interventions as he seeks to build on the momentum from this summer’s electoral contests
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Newsletter 390 - 21/07/2023
had made during this summer’s election campaigns, becoming the second draft law submitted... to the European Union’s Copernicus mapping system, almost 3,500 hectares of land was burnt in eastern...’s central committee over the weekend resulted in a final decision on when the party’s leadership
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Wildfire threat to air base puts government in embarrassing position
PoliticsGreek Politicsfighter jets. This represents around half of the Greek Air Force’s total F-16 capacity, Kathimerini... embarrassing for the government for several reasons. Firstly, it cast fresh doubt over the state’s... of Greece’s defence capabilities, including the purchase of new jets from the US, one of its most
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Newsletter 393 - 15/09/2023
PoliticsFlooding threatens to damage government’s foundationsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis... the government’s commitment to a 0.7 percent primary surplus, some of the spending on pensions... to attacks on the government from opposition parties, which claim that New Democracy’s self-declared
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