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Majority for marriage equality in sight despite reluctance among ruling party MPs
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAfter two days during which New Democracy MPs were briefed privately by government officials about the reasoning behind the marriage equality bill, as well as its details, the party appears confident that most of its lawmakers will back the legislation,...
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Signs of rally for ND despite strong dissatisfaction among voters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA Metron Analysis poll for Mega TV suggests that dissatisfaction with the government’s record in a number of policy areas is high but, nevertheless, New Democracy has started to reverse some of the recent losses it has suffered. Support for the ruling c...
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"Executive state" model becomes latest lightning rod for discontent among ND MPs
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn a sign of rising tensions within New Democracy, lawmakers from the ruling conservative party have taken aim at Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s inner circle over what they say is an over-concentration of power in the PM’s office which marginalises elected repre...
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Why did Greece return to bond markets now? Was it the right decision?
Economyis just one paving stone in this process. It signifies an end to one part of the crisis, which saw... Journal reported that Blackrock, Invesco and Legal & Genral were among the top fund management companies.... There is a flipside, though. For starters, the first day of trading for the new bond saw the yield climb
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Newsletter 7 - 12/12/2014
to back Dimas. Also, those intending to vote “no” (10) among the independent MPs outnumbered the “yes... 2012. September also saw the highest reading for the month-on-month rise in the number of employed... demanded by the troika. Cool heads did not prevail in New Democracy either. Samaras saw his party
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Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016
he spoke “with people looking for solutions and not problems”. Among the thorniest issues..., Mitsotakis saw off the competition from his rival Evangelos Meimarakis (52.4 vs 47.6 percent) to win Sunday’s.... Elected just over a year ago, the leftist party saw itself in the vanguard of the backlash against
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Tracing the decline of the middle class as parties vie for its votes
EconomyFeatures, with the exception of the lowest earners who saw their tax increase threefold between 2012-2014 (though from.... Households earning 12,000-16,000 euros saw their tax increased by 21 percent in 2012-2014 and 26 percent... class lost disposable income between 2007 and 2015 at the highest rate among the countries studied (4
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Newsletter 232 -13/12/2019
billion euros of NPEs in overall movements that saw NPEs drop to 75.4 billion from 81.8 billion at the end... consensus among the parties. Also, the issue of Greeks abroad being allowed to vote without having... in the bond market that saw the yield on the 10-year benchmark drop to as low as 1.2 percent at the end
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Mitsotakis pledges more tax cuts in 2020 amid police violence claims
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWednesday night’s vote on the 2020 budget, which saw the economic plan approved by just the 158 New... that the government saw as a key part of the confidence-building exercise vis-à-vis foreign investors. Staikouras... important strand of New Democracy’s approach is attempting to restore a sense of public safety. Among
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Newsletter 276 -04/12/2020
. Old apartments, classified as over five years old, saw their prices increase by 2.6 percent in Q3 versus an increase of 3.3 percent in Q2. New properties, classified as up to five years old saw price... since May. The rate of contraction was among the fastest since data collection began in May 1999. New
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