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Dispute over hospital doctor shortages rages as minister makes controversial Turkey comments
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere is growing criticism from the opposition parties about the government’s handling of public... regarding Greece’s military capability in comparison with Turkey’s. The government has been trying... doctors to comply with the government’s request as regional hospitals in particular suffer from a lack
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SYRIZA seizes on latest spyware reports to renew pressure on government
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the Prime Minister’s office.” The list of the 27 crossover targets includes ministers, senior New... to mobile phones. During the probe, the government clashed with the opposition over the former’s... against the illegal eavesdropping. The Inside Story report was followed by another in Sunday’s
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Mitsotakis looks to last-minute announcements to top up lean TIF offerings
PoliticsGreek Politicsspace the government is operating in. The PM’s office is hoping that official statistics due... the finance team to base their calculations for next year’s budget on more optimistic growth projections. The indications so far are that this year’s tax revenues will overshoot the target
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Poll confirms ND dominance as PASOK hopefuls eye challenger role
PoliticsGreek Politics2.7 percent and SYRIZA breakaway party New Left trails with 2 percent, ahead of Yanis Varoufakis’s... interesting observations. In relation to Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s announcements at TIF, the balance... the government’s efforts, which should provide some comfort for the PM’s team. With the toppling
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Athens moves to avoid repeat of EU division over migration policy
PoliticsForeign PolicyLast week’s decision by the SPD-led coalition government in Berlin to impose temporary controls on Germany’s land borders is provoking strong reaction within Europe, putting the migration issue back.... Moreover, Germany’s decision last year to stop accepting asylum seekers means in practice
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Kasselakis set to be excluded from SYRIZA leadership bid after row over assets
PoliticsGreek PoliticsStefanos Kasselakis’s bid to win back the leadership of SYRIZA looks set to be stymied by his... party over recent months. A row over the ousted leader’s personal wealth set in motion the process... eligibility criteria, which Kasselakis’s opponents claim were put in place to improve transparency, while
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ND and SYRIZA contend with internal strife as PASOK advances
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMitsotakis and one of his predecessors are set to continue this week, although the ruling party’s.... It has also soured the mood within the conservative party’s parliamentary group, where Samaras still has some loyal supporters. The sentiment among ND MPs has not been helped by the party’s lacklustre
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PM reacts to Trump win as Kasselakis manipulation claims put SYRIZA on knife edge
PoliticsGreek PoliticsUS President as Athens hopes to ensure the Republic candidate’s win does not bring with it any nasty surprises for Greece’s relations with the US. Kasselakis has fought the decisions of the party... of delegates in the vote which took place over the weekend, however one of Kasselakis’s staunchest allies
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PASOK pushes back against PM's refusal to tax excess bank profits
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the government expects much from Greece’s lenders but that it has no plans to impose an extra... that his government is aiming to convince Greece’s European partners and the markets that the country has... noted, though, that he would first have to get the buy-in of Greece’s European partners. There has been
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Government lines up bills on education and housing, mulls social media controls for minors
PoliticsGreek Politics, while the PM’s office is said to be considering ways of limiting access to harmful social media content... Mitsotakis handed his cabinet the blue dossiers containing each ministry’s priorities for the coming year, an annual ritual which he introduced during his first term to signal his administration’s target
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