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Election speculation gathers steam while surveillance claims mount
PoliticsGreek Politicscurrently favoured by the prime minister. Last week, Interior Minister Makis Voridis, whose department is responsible for planning the elections, suggested in an interview on Mega TV that the date... are scheduled for late June. Elaborating on his statements in a separate interview on ANT1 TV, Voridis said
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Move to block far-right fuels conflict between ND and SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDawn. During a TV panel discussion on Skai TV on Wednesday, SYRIZA’s spokeswoman Popi Tsapanidou... the integrity of the electoral process. New Democracy’s response, led by Interior Minister Makis Voridis
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Rise of small parties creates pre- and post-election complications
PoliticsGreek Politicsto miss out. However, an opinion poll carried out by Metron Analysis for Mega TV suggests that MeRA25... for Skai TV, suggests that MeRA25 is still a long way off the 3 pct threshold and that seven parties.... Reports also suggest that conservative officials are considering merging the Interior and Digital
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Jockeying over presidential nomination points to parties' longer-term political goals
PoliticsGreek Politics, a new opinion poll by Marc for ANT-1 TV will have been met with concern by Androulakis and his... TV indicates that 25.1 pct of respondents intend to vote for New Democracy, 14.2 pct for PASOK, 7 pct... Karolos Papoulias in 2005 or Alexis Tsipras choosing former interior minister and New Democracy
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Government comes out swinging as tense week, building up to Tempe protests, begins
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor this week, as far as the government is concerned, by producing a typically combative TV performance... TV. “It is, in essence, a protest against Mitsotakis.” He added that the Tempe victims... as the government tries to hit back against its opponents via the media. Another is Interior Minister
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Ball in Greece's court after Skopje completes approval of name deal
Foreign PolicyGreek Politicsin parliament, which also gave the green light last Friday for the country's name to change... new name of North Macedonia. Next steps Speaking to Open TV last week, Tsipras stated that as soon... has said many times (including in a TV interview on Monday), that if the agreement is ratified
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Parliament re-opens for business amid calls for greater scrutiny
PoliticsGreek Politics. In an interview on Mega TV yesterday, former Labour Minster and SYRIZA MP Efi Achtsioglou warned... environmental legislation and speed up in investments in green energy. Critics are concerned... to be fanned by both main parties, despite recent official denials. In a TV interview yesterday, a junior
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Covid-19 inflicts minimal wear and tear for ND as opposition struggles to profit
PoliticsGreek Politicspositivity are taken into account, some Greek regions are still in the green zone – putting them among few... are growing more concerned about developments. An Alco poll for Open TV indicates that the pandemic... 15 pct in May. A survey by Marc for Alpha TV suggests that 35.6 pct of Greeks think
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Newsletter 324 - 21/01/2022
it would create in public revenues. Speaking on TV this week, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said... for Mega TV, also shows KINAL’s fortunes improving steadily. According to the poll, the centre-left party... of the year is also due to see the issuance of a green bond.MacroeconomyCharts of the weekBalance
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Relief for coalition as wildfire threat subsides
PoliticsGreek Politicscontrol a large forest fire that had been burning for three days north of Athens. The trouble... for around 1,500 hectares of forest- and shrub-land being burnt. The political leaders appeared to take... Kyriakos Mitsotakis, meanwhile, made six proposals for changes to the way Greece addresses forest
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