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PM heads north to rally voters ahead of tough winter
PoliticsGreek Politicsby Mitsotakis at the Thessaloniki International Fair. The centre-right party has made it a priority since late... the financial assistance that has been on offer to households and businesses, Greeks still pay...) on the energy market in Europe has been highlighted by the local media, and picked up by opposition
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Newsletter 355 - 14/10/2022
on northern Greece ahead of next year’s elections. It has to do with the fact that a larger part... Greek Solution, led by pro-Russia Kyriakos Velopoulos, has moved into double digits in some parts of northern Greece. It has been a longstanding concern of ND officials that parties to the right
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Scandals chip away at ND's lead as SYRIZA tries to cut through on surveillance issue
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy’s lead over SYRIZA has declined noticeably over the last few weeks, according.... In contrast, backing for SYRIZA has edged up to 23 pct from 22.7 pct. According to MRB, this is the left-wing party’s highest score for more than a year, although the increase in support has been very
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Cost-of-living protest adds to government's concerns
PoliticsGreek Politicsis a huge sum for the national budget. However, ND has not been able to do much to limit the rises... dismissed it as a gimmick that has no real impact on prices. Inflation reached 12 pct in September, and 8.7 pct on a rolling 12-month average. Greece has not seen price increases of this magnitude since
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Opposition keeps pressure on Mitsotakis as surveillance issue sends ripples through ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe majority on the committee, which has made it hard for the minority parties to influence the agenda... party secretary, has submitted a lawsuit against those responsible for targeting her with Predator... and business world, Vangelis Marinakis, has made many nervous about Mitsotakis’s prospects heading towards
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Newsletter 359 - 18/11/2022
suggested that concern has been expressed in foreign capitals about the possibility of Dendias being... Democracy has been advancing the theory that private operatives, even possibly foreign intelligence services... that has been aimed in its direction, the government unveiled on Tuesday a draft law aimed at protecting
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Dendias's Libya tangle cuts off Athens-Tripoli communication
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe diplomatic incident that took place last Thursday morning at Tripoli airport has stoked a new... energy exploration deal with Ankara based on the 2019 Turkey-Libya memorandum, which Greece has... government has expired, and it cannot legitimately sign international agreements that are binding
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Pension rises approved as public opinion teeters ahead of election year
PoliticsGreek PoliticsYet another poll published this week has shown some erosion in the support for New Democracy... for Mega TV indicated that support for ND has dropped by half a percentage point since last month, decreasing to 28.9 pct. SYRIZA’s backing has edged up from 20.7 to 20.9, while PASOK has dipped from 11.9
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Government determined to push through hospital reforms in pre-election legislative sprint
PoliticsGreek Politicswith an average 10 pct pay increase for hospital doctors. The reaction from doctors’ representatives has... The largest opposition party, SYRIZA, has already announced that it will be voting against... of its term, the emphasis has been placed by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis on delivering the party’s key
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Tsipras on alert for snap elections, but Mitsotakis looks set to stay course
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has suggested that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis could call snap..., is an opportunity for New Democracy to attack one of its election rivals, and the party that has done most to draw... at the helm, support for the socialists has risen by several percentage points, drawing support away
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