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Tsipras, Mitsotakis step up rhetoric ahead of EU vote as polls show little change
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTsipras presented on Monday night at a public gathering SYRIZA’s 42 candidates for the European... and Europe’s far-right via the EPP’s lead candidate for the European Commission presidency, Manfred Weber... to direct rage towards the weak,” said Tsipras. “Look at Mr Mitsotakis’s friend, Mr Weber, who
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Confidence vote due amid toxic atmosphere, narrowing of opposition poll lead
PoliticsGreek Politicsin particular dominated attention. It was the opposition leader’s inference that Tsipras’s family (his father.... Mitsotakis’s comment clearly riled the prime minister, who released a statement via his Facebook page on Thursday claiming that his father had been briefly jailed by the junta and that he and Tsipras’s
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Could Greece's immigration reforms have an impact on upcoming elections?
SocietyDebate around a recent amendment to Greece’s Citizenship Code has prompted a flurry of claims... for the electoral map. In a parliamentary question, New Democracy’s shadow defence spokesman Vassilis... election, a very narrow lead over New Democracy’s 77,630 votes. Another New Democracy MP
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How SYRIZA lost and New Democracy won
AgoraSunday’s European Parliament elections result in Greece confirmed that the dominance of Alexis Tsipras in the country’s politics, which started with a win in the same contest in 2014, has come... percentage points (pps) 35.81 percent versus 25.29 percent. With more than 70 percent of Sunday’s votes
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SYRIZA unveils array of pledges to win over voters ahead of July 7 vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor snap election on July 7, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras presided over the unveiling of SYRIZA’s... of the middle class. Xenogiannakopoulou is one of the highest profile additions to SYRIZA’s team from the former PASOK. Her presence, apart from being linked to the left-wing party’s plans for modernising
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Mitsotakis sworn in as prime minister as attention turns to Cabinet picks
PoliticsGreek Politicsafter New Democracy’s landslide election victory on Sunday. Mitsotakis became Greece’s eighth prime..., Mitsotakis’s first task is to appoint his Cabinet, which is due to be announced at 6pm and sworn... the ground running, with bills to re-organise the government’s structure, changes to the penal code and tax
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Mitsotakis promises 'new normality,' lines up tax cuts straight away
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has set out his government’s priorities for the next four years... in the country’s two biggest cities, Athens and Thessaloniki, the government’s focus would be on making... to the government’s tax plans. The ND leader said that reduction of the ENFIA property levy would
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BoG awaits go-ahead from DG Comp over NPL scheme
EconomyBankingfor the reduction of bad loans on the books of the country’s systemic banks. The plan envisions the ability of Greece’s banks to voluntarily transfer bad or chronically delayed loans to special... of 40 billion euros. BoG’s data showed that the above loans have collateral valued by the banks at 17
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Government courts backlash over squat raids, while opposition is absorbed in internal debate
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment’s willingness to implement the hard-line law and order agenda which was a mainstay of its... to evict anarchists and organised crime from Exarchia was an emblematic part of Kostas Bakoyannis’s mayoral campaign. On a national level, Exarchia has become synonymous with New Democracy’s law
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Mitsotakis lauds Commission VP nomination amid murmurs within party
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe achievement of Greece’s nominee for the European Commission being offered a vice president spot.... The Greek leader argued that von der Leyen’s decision was evidence of Greece’s improved standing.... Schinas is Greece’s first Commission vice president and his appointment to this position as well
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