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Newsletter 362 - 09/12/2022
on Thursday, during the leaders’ debate over the government’s draft law. Addressing the plenary session... of the bill. Earlier in the week, during a committee session on the draft law, the heads... on the subject during a rare public appearance in front of an audience of senior party figures, including
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Sensing weakened government, opposition pushes back against blame-sharing for rail accident
PoliticsGreek Politics, the party’s former transport minister Christos Spirtzis argued during an appearance on Skai TV that ND must accept the majority of blame for the accident for allowing critical projects to lapse during its four years in government. “We all have responsibilities”, he said during the interview, “but I
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Tsipras tries to keep spotlight on ND, talks up election chances
PoliticsGreek Politicsand across the political spectrum. During his appearance on Mega TV, Tsipras argued that although... at claims that during SYRIZA’s tenure between 2015 and 2019 there was little progress on installing..., the transport minister during SYRIZA’s tenure, also gave a televised interview to defend his party’s record
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Newsletter 378 - 28/04/2023
a stable policy landscape across the vast majority of the political spectrum. SYRIZA during its 2015-2019... on this path during the current term of fiscal compliance and PASOK, a possible coalition partner, is broadly in line with a policy programme within the fiscal boundaries. S&P argues during its latest rating
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Spotlight falls on public hirings as PM pledges more health staff
PoliticsGreek Politicsby Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday about unveiling his hiring plan imminently. During... it was revealed during the Covid pandemic to have several significant shortcomings and, more recently, several fatal incidents involving long waits for ambulances. During his visit, Mitsotakis also insisted
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Newsletter 389 - 14/07/2023
barriers to Greeks living abroad, or just visiting another country during national elections, from... a large part of its pledges during the election campaigns of May and June and a market foray... by austerity measures during the debt crisis and lost their two bonus salaries. Next year’s increases
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Minister's resignation deflates government after series of missteps
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEconomou, who served as government spokesman during New Democracy’s first term. Mitarakis had already... police created during the government’s first term would be scrapped. The idea was immediately... that New Democracy gained during the two electoral encounters in the summer. As a result, it caused
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Labour bill controversy dents plans for announcements of new measures in Sep
PoliticsGreek Politicsis afforded this space during August remains to be seen. Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister... workers to have at least 11 hours of rest between their shifts during a 24-hour period... them to fire the worker during that period without having to pay compensation or being bound by any
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In 2024, Greece and Turkey look to build on diplomatic progress made in previous months
PoliticsForeign Policythe way for a new chapter in their diplomatic relations. It became a year during which the two...” aimed at marking the start of new rapprochement in Greek-Turkish relations, which was sealed during Erdogan’s visit to Athens on December 7. During that visit both countries signed up (via the Athens
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Resignations of two key aides undermines PM's attempt to rebuff crash cover-up claims
PoliticsGreek Politicssecretary, and nephew, Grigoris Dimitriadis, during his first term over the wiretapping affair. All.... It is, therefore, doubtful that much attention will be paid to other parts of the PM’s speech, during which he... vote in the European Parliament on the subject. He did not make any reference during his speech
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