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ND targets eye-catching wins in local elections as SYRIZA officials agree tentative truce
PoliticsGreek Politicsto put its recent difficulties behind it through a strong performance in this weekend’s local elections. Meanwhile, it appears that a temporary truce has been agreed within SYRIZA between the party’s... like to perform a clean sweep in Sunday’s elections, when candidates require to gain more than 43
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PM makes delayed Israel visit to offer support, express concerns about humanitarian impact
PoliticsForeign PolicyPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made a short trip to Israel on Monday to reiterate Athens’s support for Israel’s right to self-defence, but in line with international humanitarian law. The Greek premier’s visit was originally scheduled to take place last Thursday, but it was postponed as both US
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Greece offers to assist in Gaza humanitarian effort
PoliticsForeign Policyto diplomatic sources, he offered Greece’s support for humanitarian aid to reach the Gaza Strip, as well... sides come together, and I believe we will proceed by leveraging this capital”. On Greece’s role... that sustainable humanitarian corridors must exist.” Therefore, Gerapetritis’s visit to both Ramallah
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SYRIZA facing more departures as party's position continues to weaken
PoliticsGreek Politicshours and involved more than 1,000 members, was that Achtsioglou’s supporters do not see how they can... of time and is likely to come before SYRIZA’s central committee meets on December 10. The left-wing... caused by Kasselakis’s decision to clash with his internal critics rather than seek some form
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Mitsotakis targets reforms, but day-to-day challenges set to dominate agenda in 2024
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHaving reaffirmed his government’s commitment to reforming and modernising Greece in his New Year... on this pledge during 2024 and maintain the political dominance it displayed in last summer’s...’s budget contains around 1.6 billion euros in measures that are aimed at helping Greeks cope
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Opposition set to back same-sex marriage bill, easing passage through Parliament
PoliticsGreek Politicsof passing with the help of the opposition. Mitsotakis indicated this week that New Democracy’s 158... Samaras will vote against the legislation, rather than follow Mitsotakis’s recommendation to abstain... would not stand in the way of social progress. However, following the SYRIZA chief’s interview, one
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Late switch smashes accord over postal vote, but marriage equality compromise still intact
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s surprise attempt to extend the postal vote to national, as well as European... by New Democracy’s manoeuvre is unlikely to also torpedo the relatively broad support... not support the government’s last-minute switch. Marriage equality Despite their frustration
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Government prepares to hit back at opposition's censure motion over train crash
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s opposition parties are expected to table this Tuesday a censure motion in Parliament... in connection to last year’s deadly Tempe train crash. The move is being made in the wake of a report in Sunday’s To Vima, which alleged that recordings of exchanges between a station master
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Kasselakis buoyed by recent bounce in opinion polls as big gap with ND narrows
PoliticsGreek PoliticsStefanos Kasselakis has again targeted an unlikely win in June’s European Parliament elections... on Thursday, while discussing his party’s prospects for the EP vote. The opposition leader has spoken... earlier this year, Kasselakis’s grip on SYRIZA has been strengthened and it seems he has bought
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ND names MEP candidates with eye on loss of support to hard right
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy has unveiled its list of candidates for this summer’s European Parliament elections... of the political spectrum are turning their back on the ruling centre-right party, weakening ND’s...’s candidate list, which includes politicians who previously served centre-left PASOK, reflected
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