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Newsletter 311 - 08/10/2021
Ministry tabled in Parliament on Monday the draft budget for 2022, setting out the government’s... thanks to a very strong tourism season. Should these forecasts materialise, next year’s nominal GDP... regaining the precipitous fall of 8.2 pct of 2020. Next year’s growth will be driven by private
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Papandreou joins KINAL leadership race amid questions about long term
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGennimata due to health issues. Gennimata’s withdrawal meant that the deadline for candidates to submit... person (all men) to announce his candidacy for the leadership of Greece’s third-largest party..., Papandreou’s candidacy gives them a chance to redefine their own campaigns. Former health minister
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Newsletter 314 - 29/10/2021
PoliticsKINAL leader’s death overshadows Covid resurgenceIn a week when a rapid rise in Covid cases, hospitalisations and deaths put the pandemic firmly back onto Greece’s political agenda, the country’s politics was overshadowed by the passing of Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata
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PM opts for risky move with vaccination penalty as Covid threat grows
PoliticsGreek Politics. The move was prompted by the government’s concerns about the emergence of the Omikron variant... their first vaccine. Government sources suggested that Tuesday’s announcement had an immediate impact... to respond to the opposition’s accusations of inaction and adopting a muddled approach. “It is a plan
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MEP Androulakis takes first round in KINAL leadership vote after notable turnout
PoliticsGreek Politicsas it was substantially higher (roughly 30 pct) on the participation in KINAL’s last leadership vote... that this year’s ballot took place amid another deadly wave of Covid, the number of party supporters... supporters were galvanised by Gennimata’s recent death, making them more determined to make KINAL
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Newsletter 322 - 07/01/2022
school term. In his New Year’s address, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sought to strike an upbeat...’s Day speech, Mitsotakis called on Greeks to turn their back on disaster-mongering and defeatism... from New Democracy’s political rivals, particularly SYRIZA. In his address, opposition leader Alexis
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SYRIZA zooms in on inflation, pandemic weaknesses to boost popularity
PoliticsGreek Politicscourt cases, as contributing to New Democracy’s wear and tear. Despite the ruling conservatives.... On the pandemic front, SYRIZA believes that the government’s efforts to play down recent developments and convince the public that the impact of Covid is waning have been undone by the virus’s
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Newsletter 324 - 21/01/2022
that it will be able to politically exploit the government’s restrained approach in combating inflation... to be a threat to the leftists and New Democracy. Along with the pandemic’s ongoing impact on public health... wage above 700 euros – but still well short of what SYRIZA is advocating. SYRIZA’s belief
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Mitsotakis tries to dig way out of snowstorm fallout
PoliticsGreek Politics’s overall preparation for the extreme weather, particularly as government spokesman Yiannis..., but also in the wake of this summer’s wildfires. This sentiment was echoed by third party, KINAL... Kyriakos Mitsotakis was that he would oversee the overhaul of the public administration and Greece’s
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SYRIZA calls for vote of no confidence, as PM's apology over storm chaos fails to chime
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe fallout from snowstorm “Elpida” continues to unfold, as PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s offer... by SYRIZA. In a clear echo of his address following last summer’s wildfires, Mitsotakis offered... the opposition’s calls for the dismissal of ministers. Instead, the prime minister took direct aim
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