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Newsletter 9 - 30/12/2014
Greece heads to the polls Surveys suggest SYRIZA's lead is narrowing Greece has entered one... elections is in the balance. SYRIZA has been steadily ahead in opinion polls throughout 2014 and has... shown that the gap between SYRIZA and New Democracy is narrowing. Marc has been conducting rolling
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Tsipras and Kammenos set aside speculation and focus on coalition's key goals
PoliticsGreek Politics’s office to insist, as he has done before, that SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) will remain... Greece since January 2015. Despite the reservations in both camps about this unusual cooperation... to lead to a sudden breakdown in their relationship for the simple reason that neither has any other
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Fringe parties gain from Tempe furore as judiciary becomes embroiled in row
PoliticsGreek Politicshas also been drawn into the argument. The Metron Analysis survey conducted for Mega TV indicated... up to 68 pct. There has been a similar trend in the view of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis... Analysis poll shows that, in terms of voting intentions, support for New Democracy has fallen to 22.3
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Consumer confidence at highest since January, economic sentiment stable
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s economic sentiment (ESI) edged up by 0.2 points in June to 101 points, European Commission (EC) figures showed on Thursday. As of June’s reading, the index has remained above 100 points for five consecutive months. Barring January’s reading of 99.6, the index has also remained above 100
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Govt hails success of vaccine mandate amid continuing surge in 'hard' indices of pandemic
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOn the day when fines kicked in for unvaccinated citizens over the age of 60, the government has... Greeks over 60 are now vaccinated, noting that the country has the second oldest population in Europe..., however deaths once again edged over 100 to 101, while 672 patients remained intubated in ICUs
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Government courts backlash over squat raids, while opposition is absorbed in internal debate
PoliticsGreek Politicswhere they were being transferred. Meanwhile, the police has made it known that it will be targeting... mayoral campaign. On a national level, Exarchia has become synonymous with New Democracy’s law... and friendly media as a no-go area. For their supporters, the clean-up campaign has personal significance
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Newsletter 279 -13/11/2020
Minister Makis Voridis, while government spokesman Stelios Petsas has been appointed Alternate... figures from the right wing of the party which has given rise to the loudest criticism, with centre... of such figures has fuelled speculation that Mitsotakis is considering snap elections later this year
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Newsletter 24 - 24/04/2015
payments of 400 million during May. In addition, the state has to roll over 1.4 billion of 6-month T-Bills... these holdings. Thus, the international investor take up has to be rolled over by Greek investors... in March. In comments that demonstrate that the state has almost run out of cash, in an interview
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Array of centre-left leadership candidates edge towards watershed vote
PoliticsGreek Politics’s bailout programme. In a somewhat unusual step, the candidates have decided to initiate a leadership race before forming a new party or umbrella entity. As a result, much of the attention to date has... 2015 to 6.3 percent in September 2015, running as the Democratic Alliance. While she has the support
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Opposition senses PM's position on phonetapping becoming weaker
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe discussion in Parliament about the surveillance scandal and the draft law the government has put... in Parliament, Mitsotakis took the unusual step of declaring the discussion over after he had spoken... political benefit. This is a line that has been repeated before, and since, by numerous government
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