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Newsletter 487 - 05/12/2025
. As December unfolds, the confrontation looks set to deepen, with farmers signalling...% this year, but then stagnate around 8% over the following three years. This latest set of estimates
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Newsletter 489 - 19/12/2025
a difficult path back to electability. Projections put the ruling party below the 30% target it has set... with 2.2% this year. Government officials pointed to the extensive tax reform set to roll out next
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Farmers and government edge towards dialogue after weeks of escalation
PoliticsGreek Politicselectricity costs. The government’s GAIA programme set agricultural tariffs at 0.085 euros per kilowatt hour... at Tuesday’s meeting and to set “red lines” for negotiations. Behind the scenes, informal contacts
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Mitsotakis faces pivotal talks with farmers as Mercosur deal adds to complexity of standoff
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe GAIA programme, agricultural tariffs have been set at 0.085 euros per kilowatt hour for those... will be enforced if necessary. Tuesday’s meetings are set to be pivotal. For the government, they represent
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Farmers’ boycott scuppers PM meeting as Karystianou fleshes out political vision
PoliticsGreek Politicsset by the government — including keeping roads open during negotiations — were designed to weaken... to accusations of intransigence. With talks scuppered, the dispute is set to continue. Farmers
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Athens walks tightrope as Trump rattles transatlantic ties
PoliticsForeign Policyon Thursday to set their stance on Trump’s renewed tariff threats against eight European countries — a move... not been set; we hope it will be in the first 10 days of February,” he said. He made clear
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Newsletter 497 - 06/03/2026
it cannot influence. The Israeli–US strike on Iran over the weekend set the tone. The Greek... is demanding a Council of Political Leaders to set a national line and questions Greece’s deepening alignment
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Apartment prices down 9.2 pct in Q3 as lifting of foreclosure ban mulled
EconomyMacroeconomytheir housing loan instalments. The issue of lifting a temporary ban on foreclosures of primary residences... leaders Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos had agreed last August that “the primary residences
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Home foreclosures and refugee crisis top agenda in Greece-EU talks
PoliticsForeign Policyresidences, where Athens and the institutions find themselves a substantial distance apart... the protection for primary residences was “unacceptable” and that his government would not agree
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Gov't hopes deal with lenders on prior actions will prove politically palatable
PoliticsGreek Politicsto distressed funds large corporate loans and mortgages for homes that are not primary residences... as housing loans secured against primary residences, the regulatory framework will be agreed
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