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MPs aim to probe spyware as govt brushes off latest reports
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament’s institutions and transparency committee is due to hear on Monday from one of the key... of the surveillance saga. The Prime Minister’s former general secretary, Grigoris Dimitriadis, also Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s nephew, is due to face questions from MPs who are investigating the recent revelations
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Opposition senses PM's position on phonetapping becoming weaker
PoliticsGreek Politicsforward in response to the allegations about extensive phonetapping. During Thursday’s debate... the politicians responding to each other’s comments. However, on Thursday, Mitsotakis cut short his... spying on Greece’s military chiefs, as Documento newspaper alleged on Sunday. The PM did not answer
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Newsletter 363 - 16/12/2022
PoliticsND comes under extra pressure, but MEP scandal provides outletAlthough the government’s... ordered or knew about the bugging of a government minister. The centre-right party’s strategists... that the government is trying to share on the path to next year’s elections. When Finance Minister Christos
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ND paves way to spring elections with relief measures amid SYRIZA objections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy’s approach to dealing with the cost-of-living crisis continues to be questioned by the opposition. Wednesday’s vote over the latest measure, the so-called “Market Pass”, saw SYRIZA... Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s surprise announcement in last week’s budget, that the government was going
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Newsletter 374 - 17/03/2023
Democracy’s support has declined by 4.3 points since the company’s last survey. This fall is slightly... profited to any great extent from the dip in New Democracy’s popularity. There has, though, been... for Open TV this week suggested that the ruling centre-right party’s rating has dropped from 30.2 pct
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Mitsotakis targets public sector malaise as MPs scrutinise railway safety
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat contributed to the fatal train crash at Tempe do not occur again. Mitsotakis’s bid to redirect the narrative around the deadly collision comes as Greece’s political parties prepare to clash... for railway infrastructure, as the main cause of the Tempe accident. The government’s line
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ND aims to see off threat from right, with focus on fringe religious party
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe potential for a dilution of the vote in the upcoming re-rerun scheduled in a month’s time... spectrum could complicate Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s goal of attaining an outright majority. The results... aspect of the vote tally, however, was the performance of marginal parties. While Yianis Varoufakis’s
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Minister's resignation deflates government after series of missteps
PoliticsGreek Politicsremained at their desks. The minister’s resignation came a few hours later, capping a miserable week... Economou, who served as government spokesman during New Democracy’s first term. Mitarakis had already... police created during the government’s first term would be scrapped. The idea was immediately
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Government dampens expectations for handouts in PM's speech
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment’s second term in office, when he delivers the keynote speech to mark the opening of this year’s Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), but aides have started to dial down expectations... of the momentum generated by New Democracy’s strong showing during this summer’s two electoral encounters has
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Newsletter 392 - 08/09/2023
the government to announce on Thursday that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s appearance at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) this weekend would be postponed, meaning that the New Democracy’s keynote... leadership to come under such scrutiny so quickly. As in the case of this summer’s extensive wildfires
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