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Mitsotakis gets through to Trump with "win-win" message on tariffs
PoliticsGreek Politicsis a good man. I appreciate his comments”. Trump said a fair deal could be made “with any one of them... such as Course for Freedom’s Zoe Konstantopoulou. The party has faced its own inner turmoil, with one... on which party they want to govern, positioning the contest as one between two programmes. He noted
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Newsletter 463 - 23/05/2025
PoliticsTempe proposals and corruption scandal increase pressure on NDTwo major issues—one old, one... to reports earlier this year from Politico, the illicit scheme may have siphoned off up to €45 million... are SMEs. The EFKA period reports also indicate that one in five workers are employed in hospitality
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Fitch rating upgrade concludes another successful year for GGBs
EconomyFitch upgraded Greece’s rating by one notch to ‘BBB’ with a stable outlook. The upgrade reflects... concludes the annual cycle of rating reviews that started with a DBRS upgrade by one notch further..., closing a painful 15-year cycle that kicked off with the debt crisis. S&P in April also moved Greece up
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Polling steadies at top but churns beneath surface as opposition support splinters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTwo new opinion polls published over the past few days — one from Marc and one from Metron Analysis... off today. The economic confidence index stands at –40, with the unemployed, farmers and homemakers... prefer early elections. This ambivalence mirrors the broader political picture, which is one
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Newsletter 499 - 20/03/2026
of this shield, being one of only two countries in the region with Patriot‑class systems capable.... “No one wants to actively participate in the war,” EU foreign chief Kaja Kallas said. Domestic... polls contain warnings. Nearly one in six voters remains undecided. Between 80 and 95 percent of Greeks
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A quarter-pounder democracy
Agora. If we thought that this had been rectified in one fell swoop with the prosecution of Golden Dawn’s... to extract incomes and wealth from one subset of society [the masses] to benefit a different subset... in order to create a mobility scheme for 25,000 civil servants that seems to serve a very limited
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Ex-minister's jailing a boost for faltering sense of justice
PoliticsGreek Politicsnetwork of offshore companies and property deals. The 74-year-old was one of PASOK’s co-founders... will not rectify this overnight but if his prosecution proves to be just one strand of a multi-pronged... and those responsible are not brought to account, it will be very difficult to convince Greeks
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Coalition agrees policy framework: Purpose unclear, impact doubtful
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSixteen months after one-time rivals Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos put aside... of much of the paper’s contents makes it doubtful whether it can serve anything other than a very..., the policy framework drawn up last year by the three parties put one goal above all others: Renegotiation
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Final act in ERT closure carries significant risk for coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsbeen one of the most controversial moves taken by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s government.... Images of police locking shut one of the gates at ERT’s headquarters in Athens with handcuffs.... Given that memories of Greece’s 1967-1974 are very much part of the national psyche, it is possible
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OECD's Greek debt forecast shakes foundations of troika DSA
EconomyMacroeconomyimprove its competitiveness. It also highlights the sluggish performance of Greek exports - one... lenders. Added to this, the OECD sees a price decline that is 12 percent greater than the one... 2014-2020. “Such a rapid and sustained pace of growth is very unlikely, even in the presence
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