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Early summer fire highlights precariousness of snap election option
PoliticsGreek Politicsdeaths, is still fresh in the memory, as is its impact on the SYRIZA-led government’s political fortunes... that if this summer is anything like last year’s wildfire season, or worse, the mood will be too negative for the PM to hold elections in the autumn. Saturday’s events gave opposition parties
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ND stakes claim on social policy, highlighting referendum anniversary
PoliticsGreek Politics’ support programmes. The announcement signalled the conservative governing party’s intent to take the battle to an area that is traditionally perceived as the left-wing opposition’s turf. It is worth... policy is one of the few where the gap between the two is quite narrow. The government’s move also
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Summer Covid wave sparks fresh warnings, as opposition unites on gender-based violence
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s confidence in its handling of Covid-19 over the summer is being challenged... of the rising death rate, after the spokesman for the government’s expert committee claimed on social media.... The largest opposition party, SYRIZA, has blamed the government’s lack of support for the public
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Govt unveils affordable housing scheme, but struggles to shunt wiretapping aside
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s appearance in Thessaloniki over the weekend, when he... more appealing to young Greeks. It was an issue that was raised in Sunday’s press conference at TIF... Androulakis and the implications this has for Mitsotakis’s approach towards the country’s
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Newsletter 353 - 30/09/2022
to the electoral arithmetic that will decide the campaign leading up to next year’s votes. A steady stream... by Marc on behalf of ANT1 TV, which gives ND an 8.7 pct lead with 32.8 pct versus SYRIZA’s 24.1 pct... to go from 12.3 pct to 11.4 pct. Over the past year, Marc’s soundings show ND losing 2 points
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ND sees limited political threats on path to next year's elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsderail New Democracy’s attempts to gain a new mandate to govern at next year’s elections. Since the start... to use belligerent rhetoric that Athens feels is questioning Greece’s sovereignty. On Monday.... Mitsotakis has responded directly to Erdogan’s comments over the past few weeks, accusing him
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Government seizes crisis moment to boost investment in energy infrastructure
PoliticsGreek Politics) in Thessaloniki to supply the company’s gas-powered power stations. Long-standing plans for an FSRU... of the capacity of Greece’s only existing LNG terminal at Revithoussa. Over 44 percent of the country’s natural gas imports came via Revithoussa in the first half of 2022, while the terminal
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Opposition tries to put surveillance scandal back on political agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsinto the matter and discover what they believe is the government’s involvement in the affair. Parliament’s... and experts regarding surveillance matters following the recent revelation by SYRIZA’s former transport... should be called in to help Greek authorities investigate the issue. Spirtzis, who is now SYRIZA’s
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Tsipras pushes for more thorough probe into mounting wiretap allegations
PoliticsGreek Politicsis receiving in Greece’s public debate by paying a visit to the Supreme Court prosecutor that is overseeing the investigation into the phonetapping claims. Tsipras’s visit to Isidoros Dogiakos came...’s armed forces chiefs, raising concerns about national security. As has become its standard practice
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PM offers shopping bill subsidy as surveillance scandal threatens to spill over into judicial crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicseligible family’s monthly shopping bill reimbursed by the state. To qualify, families have to fulfil... next year’s elections. The left-wing party claimed that on average each family stands to gain 30... to distract the public’s attention from the increasingly onerous developments regarding
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