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SYRIZA consumed by new leadership drama as PASOK rubber stamps candidacies
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlthough Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced a raft of measures and initiatives over the weekend, the dramatic developments at SYRIZA and the next stage in the leadership race at PASOK have... within the party. Following the split in the party that saw the creation of leftist grouping New Left
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Syria developments dominate as Athens steps up diplomatic exchanges
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe dramatic situation in Syria will be one of the issues that will top the agenda for the meeting Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis is due to hold with new EU Mediterranean Commissioner... 2016 and saw Syria's military withdraw its troops from the city. The Greek side is fearful
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Newsletter 452 - 21/02/2025
their popularity and damage the government. His newspaper interview signalled a dramatic change in approach..., the ministry attributes this to tackling tax evasion. Certain activities saw increases in e-transactions
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Government counter‑offensive on OPEKEPE as Tsipras–SYRIZA schism deepens
PoliticsGreek Politicsby a dramatic escalation in SYRIZA’s internal collapse. The party is now on the brink of losing its... event, #AskTsipras, saw Tsipras answer questions live. ELAS plans webinars, thematic consultations
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Newsletter 262 -04/09/2020
advantage the Finance Ministry has in its calculations so far is that it does not need to replicate for 2021 the 7 billion euros of stimulus measures adopted so far this year. Also, to avoid putting... was not as dramatic. In 2008, Greece was spending 3 pct of its GDP on defence. In 2018, this stood at 2 pct
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Government tries to deflect criticism over wildfires with appeal to patriotism
PoliticsGreek Politicsarson by agents of Turkey. The government has so far avoided any comprehensive debate over... since the weekend’s dramatic evacuations on Rhodes, while the deaths of military personnel have led... casualties remain contained so far, the scale of the disaster is significant. According to the European
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Newsletter 502 - 24/04/2026
of an outright majority if elections were held now. The decline is not dramatic, but it is politically... million support package on Wednesday. The measures, funded by a far larger‑than‑expected primary... intervention suggest that the political cost of the OPEKEPE affair is far from spent.EconomyGreece braces
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Industrial production drops 2.1 pct in July but rate of decline slows
EconomyMacroeconomy). The July headline figure is the sixth negative reading so far in 2014 and the sixteenth over the last..., capital goods and consumer durables, showed a decline ranging between 4.3 to 9.9 percent in July... of coal and lignite followed suit exhibiting a nosedive ranging from 28 to 30 percent. In contrast
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Who voted "No" in Sunday's referendum?
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat young Greeks voted against the Eurogroup’s proposals in far greater numbers than elderly citizens... as unemployed voted “No” with the respective percentages ranging between 71 and 73 percent. The self-employed... in the center or right, the “No” vote was supported by a minority ranging from 17.2 percent
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Mitsotakis makes final push for comfortable majority as small parties hold key
PoliticsGreek Politicsprojects that this will translate into a result ranging from 37.7 to 43.7 for ND, which in most... seats, while radical left MeRA25 and far-right Spartiates are seen as having an outside chance... Eleftherias as having a strong chance of getting into Parliament, with Niki slightly behind, ranging from 2.3
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