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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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Newsletter 490 - 16/01/2026
between the government and protesting farmers during the week, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his.... This was reflected in another round of credit rating upgrades during 2025 and in the comfortable rollout... of 2012, when there was a large private sector debt haircut. During 2025, there were also upgrades - one
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Parties on edge as Golden Dawn case has potential to go either way
PoliticsGreek Politicsduring this week’s developments. PASOK leader and Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos reportedly... almost two percentage points more than the party received during last summer’s elections and well above..., points to one of the reasons that Golden Dawn’s popularity has not dropped more during recent weeks. When
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Words will always hurt
Agorapercent of public spending was left off the books and the amount the country owed quadrupled during... [in Greece],” he told his counterpart Joseph Muscat during talks in Valetta about the European Union... Temponeras in 1991 during a protest against an education bill. Should Samaras be held accountable
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