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Parties pick from energy policy menu as EU response opens up more options
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe past week has seen the range of potential policies for tackling high energy prices expand... the coming weeks and months, perhaps leading up to the next election. The New Democracy government has... as high prices persist. It has been clear for some time, however, that PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his
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Parties re-work strategies as clearer picture emerges for election run-up
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis has dropped any thoughts of holding snap elections in the coming months, partly... of the local media has interpreted this comment as a laying down of the gauntlet to third party KINAL, whose new leader Nikos Androulakis has so far not indicated any desire to establish a working
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Under increasing domestic pressure, govt awaits EU signs for response to energy security threat
PoliticsGreek Politicssanctions has sharpened the government’s focus on the security of national energy supplies..., and in retaliation Gazprom announced that it would be halting deliveries. The move has left EU members, including... set up accounts with the bank has created controversy and sharpened divisions in the bloc. According
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SYRIZA on front foot over energy prices as poll gap narrows further
PoliticsGreek Politicsenergy prices, SYRIZA senses that it has an opportunity to erode further New Democracy’s lead... of customers on variable tariffs. This clause, introduced in 2020, has become the subject of a number... to protect consumers. The main opposition has also been highly critical of what it interprets
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Overflights spat marks resumption of Greek-Turkish tension
PoliticsForeign PolicyMeasures process initiated both bilaterally and at NATO, the meetings of which Greece has been... in Ukraine. Athens will stress to its NATO and EU partners that this incident underlines that Ankara has... for the Dardanelles Strait as far as the movement of NATO troops is concerned. Alexandroupolis has also turned
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New energy subsidy scheme nearing launch as public remains sceptical
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe public and win back some of the support it has lost over the last few months as the cost-of-living crisis has gripped Greek households. The launch of the scheme cannot come soon enough for the ruling... to be fought over day-to-day issues such as energy costs rather than foreign policy. ND has a distinct
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Athens bracing for fresh tension with Turkey, sends letter to UN
PoliticsForeign Policyurged the US not supply Turkey with the F-16 fighter jets. Ankara has been putting pressure... demonstrate Turkey's revisionist stance.” Athens acknowledges that a new round of tension with Ankara has.... This was Greece's response to Ankara’s letter to the UN last September. Turkey has been criticising
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ND draws battle lines around universities as tensions flare over reforms and policing
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s latest education reform bill has been put to public consultation amid tensions..., and were later repealed. The union representing academic staff, POSDEP, has already rejected the new... on university campuses around the issue of policing. This is a divisive issue that New Democracy has promised
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Tsipras talks up prospects of snap elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras has added to the ongoing speculation about snap polls in the autumn by indicating... months ahead of schedule. Tsipras, like his New Democracy counterpart, has been touring the country... has realised that his policies are leading to a dead-end for his party, forcing the PM to prepare
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ND stakes claim on social policy, highlighting referendum anniversary
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy has announced that it is launching a debate on social policy, in a move widely... the government believes it has delivered on social issues. The list included a reduction in unemployment from... noting that while New Democracy has a substantial lead over SYRIZA in many policy areas, social
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