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PM attempts to regroup, shift focus after testing week over Tempe crash
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is trying to regroup after a testing few days last week, during which Prime Minister... victim decried the behaviour of ND MPs in Parliament during last week’s debate, while suggesting.... This was a point that was not addressed during the responses given by government officials during last week
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Parties get salty over cheese prices as cost of living debate heats up
PoliticsGreek Politics, and idiosyncratic, heights during the last few days as New Democracy and SYRIZA have been arguing over... as part of a package of measures aimed at easing prices for consumers. During the debate... issues related to the cost of living during this campaign for the European Parliament elections. Recent
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PM banks on restoration and compensation healing Attica fire wounds
PoliticsGreek Politicsshortcomings during the effort to contain the fire, the lack of spending on fire prevention... tripled during that time. According to the figures put forward by the SYRIZA official, almost 470 million euros was spent on hiring firefighting planes and helicopters between 2020 and 2024. During
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Post-election blamestorming or Why Harris lost and the Democrats should nominate Oprah
Agora, Harris had only served two full years of her six-year term as a senator from California, during... the ‘radical left woke agenda’. It was unfortunate that Harris had gone on record during her 2019 run... herself from during the campaign. This was an unnecessary distraction. So-called ‘woke’ identity
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Bank tax proposal spearheads PASOK attack on government's economic policy
Economyan amendment during the debate on the Labour Ministry’s bill about the new minimum wage mechanism. PASOK... it up from the debt crisis legacies. During the first half of the debt crisis, the Greek state pumped 40... for the losses incurred during the Greek debt haircut, known as the PSI, banks were given tax breaks
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Polls provide PM with some comfort, spell out size of task for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsseem to have mostly missed the opportunity to make gains during what was an extremely testing... of Freedom, the populist party led by Zoe Konstantopoulou, saw its support shoot up during February and March, reaching 13.4 pct. However, during the past few weeks, the party’s support dipped to 12.8 pct
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Newsletter 461 - 09/05/2025
has started to recover some of the losses it incurred during the first few months of the year, when... by Zoe Konstantopoulou, saw its support shoot up during February and March, reaching 13.4 pct. However, during the past few weeks, the party’s support dipped to 12.8 pct. This still places the far
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Newsletter 464 - 30/05/2025
distribution. In a bid to contain the crisis, Mitsotakis announced during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday... OPEKEPE chiefs during his tenure—enough, he claimed, for the administration to be aware of systemic... the losses suffered during the debt crisis have now been recovered. The shortage in properties
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Revival of Mitsotakis-Tsipras rivalry points to future developments on political scene
PoliticsGreek Politicsduring his extensive news conference on Sunday, adding to the impression that a revival..., Tsipras has steadily been rebuilding his reputation, which was tarnished during the four years he served as Greece’s PM. By far the most significant damage was done during the first six months
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Cancelled leaders' meeting in US emphasises stalemate in Greek-Turkish relations
PoliticsForeign Policyin the SAFE programme it needs to withdraw its “casus belli” against Greece. On Sunday, during his.... During last week the cancellation of the meeting of the two leaders caused heated political debate.... But the Greek Premier is unlikely to meet with the Turkish President this week during the European
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