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Newsletter 362 - 09/12/2022
, opinion polls indicate that New Democracy has started to suffer some wear-and-tear as a result... military, raising concerns about national security. As has become its standard practice following... 29 pct believe Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has handled the matter well, while 24 pct feel
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Opposition senses PM's position on phonetapping becoming weaker
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe discussion in Parliament about the surveillance scandal and the draft law the government has put... political benefit. This is a line that has been repeated before, and since, by numerous government... that it gave the impression SYRIZA has compromising evidence that it is waiting to reveal at the most
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Newsletter 363 - 16/12/2022
, the PM has tried to keep the issue at arm’s length but each week there are new revelations and his... in November and 7.2 pct in June, according to the same polls conducted by MRB. Since June, support for ND has dropped by 0.8 points, while SYRIZA’s backing has risen by 1 percentage point. However, New
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Opposition hoping surveillance, cronyism scandals will bite ND
PoliticsGreek Politics. The government has so far largely warded off most of the fallout from the phonetapping issue, although...) and the widespread use of Predator spyware has eroded some of the public’s support for ND. There is still hope within... on Tuesday that the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) has decided to ask
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Transparency concerns emerge among voters as leaders clash over wiretapping
PoliticsGreek Politicsissue has been dealt with responsibly and promptly by the government, while focussing more on his... the spring onwards. The MRB survey for Open TV suggests that support for New Democracy and SYRIZA has... support has climbed from 23 to 24.3 pct. During that time, PASOK lost one percentage point, dropping
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Newsletter 370 - 17/02/2023
to create a governing coalition. Mitsotakis has indicated that he will not seek any partnerships... of the Communists joining such an administration are almost non-existent as the party has no history of political cooperation and has shown no interest in such discussions. Unless
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Train tragedy prompts urgent questions about railway safety
PoliticsGreek Politics36 deaths and dozens of injuries has laid bare the deficiencies in the country’s rail network... posed in the media. Some of the attention has fallen on the station master at Larissa, the last stop...), which manages the railway infrastructure, nor the government. Rail safety has been a longstanding
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Sensing weakened government, opposition pushes back against blame-sharing for rail accident
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the surveillance affair, in order to evade questioning from Parliament. SYRIZA has also called... euros in funding for the railways. In recent days, SYRIZA has been hitting back against the prime... and Trade has a more limited function compared to Institutions and Transparency which has
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Mitsotakis targets public sector malaise as MPs scrutinise railway safety
PoliticsGreek Politicsclaimed that he has a “mandate to change the Greece that wounds us”. He argued that New Democracy has... the signalling and safety equipment at their disposal to prevent the accident. This explanation has... to power. ND has a majority on the committee and has also asked for Christos Spritzis, the transport
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PM targets elections in May as polls show outcome is finely balanced
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat he has reached out twice to PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis for a meeting but the opposition politician has rejected his requests. In a scenario where ND fails to reach a parliamentary majority... that his party has taken a hit in the wake of the train crash, but argued that the fall in its
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