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Mitsotakis defends his record against backdrop of tough migration package
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPM Kyriakos Mitsotakis used the announcement of emergency measures to tackle a surge in migrant arrivals to mark New Democracy’s six years in power. The prime minister launched an attack on his political opponents, including his predecessor Alexis Tsipr...
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Tsipras and Erdogan keep conversation going despite lack of specific gains
PoliticsForeign Policy. In joint statements following their meeting in the Presidential Palace, Tsipras summed up the main... the chance to openly discuss bilateral issues but their main purpose is to lead to specific..., following yet another meeting between Tsipras and Mr Erdogan, the main takeaway seems
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Newsletter 210 -07/06/2019
and SYRIZA setting out their main policy ideas, but with the centre-right party maintaining what seems... main industrial groupings. Greece’s Industrial Production Index (IPI) dropped year-on-year (YoY... percent in March. During April, three out of five main industrial groupings recorded production
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Outright majority in sight for ND as campaign takes detour through recent past
PoliticsGreek Politicsas the main parties try to pin blame for the crisis on each other. The trip down memory lane is unlikely... to draw new dividing lines between Greece’s main parties. The retrospective was triggered by former... that neither of the leaders of the two main parties is suitable to be prime minister. Pulse makes three
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Mitsotakis pleads for strong mandate as polls suggest ND heading for landslide win
PoliticsGreek Politicsorder or interior ministries. Economy The opposition leader also touched upon the main elements of New...New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis held his main campaign rally in Athens on Thursday night... final push ahead of Sunday’s vote, Mitsotakis presented the main elements of New Democracy’s
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Newsletter 224 -25/10/2019
Democracy insists carried the main burden of the economic policy choices made under the previous SYRIZA... on main and supplementary pensions, replacement rates for main pensions and the calculation of auxiliary..., Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos emerged to announce that a compromise had been reached that would
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Attention turns to next government as Mitsotakis holds convincing lead over rivals
PoliticsGreek Politicsas a main negotiator with the troika. The shape of the government is expected to change slightly... of the two main parties do not seem to be wavering heading into the last week before the June 25 vote..., is almost more popular than the main opposition leaders even though her party’s overall support
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Amid publicity storm, Tsipras publishes 'Ithaca' and fuels speculation about new journey
PoliticsGreek Politicsalready achieved one of the main goals of this exercise - putting himself back in the spotlight... chooses to return to frontline politics. The pushback against the main criticisms about his tenure... competition for the role of main opposition. Alexandra Sdoukou, the party’s spokeswoman, accused
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Don't celebrate a French reconnection for EU just yet
Agoratook the unusual step of congratulating Macron despite there being a run-off against Le Pen yet to come... the possibility of Le Pen, or someone like her, winning an election. “The prospect of a Le Pen presidency upsets... in working class areas, was a catalyst in Brexit without winning a single seat at a general
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Simple majority for new electoral law, which threatens future complications
PoliticsGreek Politicsduring the sunset of his long and unusual political career. There have been no official overtures... would lead to the abolition of the 50-seat bonus for the winning party, will not be implemented until... any kind of bonus to the winning party is a recipe for political instability. Simulations of previous
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