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Mitsotakis urges voters to give ND clear majority amid KINAL turmoil
PoliticsGreek Politicsto persuade voters that giving New Democracy a workable majority in Parliament would be in the country’s... that her decision was driven by Venizelos’s friendly stance towards New Democracy, which she argued was damaging KINAL’s chances of gaining voters that do not want to support SYRIZA or its centre
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East Med concerns not slowing up election campaign as ND plans for office
PoliticsGreek Politicslinked to Turkey’s activities in the Eastern Mediterranean, both main parties are moving ahead... in the 1980s and 1990s. The government’s critics, including New Democracy officials, have accused... of trying to exploit a national issue for SYRIZA’s political gain. This kind of claims intensified after
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Preventative medicine, support for vulnerable form backbone of ND healthcare package
PoliticsGreek Politicstended to be ignored in Greece. Indeed, a 2017 report by the European Commission noted that Greece’s... a doctor’s appointment within 24 hours. Those with severe long-term illnesses would be eligible for drug... European countries.” Kikilas said that Greece’s healthcare system was visibly out of date
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Hatzidakis details plans for PPC, puts forward new CEO
EconomyFeaturesGreece’s struggling public utility, the Public Power Company (PPC). In an interview with To Vima newspaper on Sunday, Energy Minister Kostis Hatzidakis indicated that PPC’s heavy reliance on lignite would be reduced in the future. Criticising the previous SYRIZA government’s handling
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Staikouras strikes note of caution on fiscal space and tax cuts
EconomyProgrammeGreece’s finance minister revealed in an interview with Kathimerini newspaper over the weekend... that following this year’s reduction in property tax, there is no room for any added relief measures. He... that next year’s fiscal gap will be between 1.2 and 1.5 percent of GDP, roughly 2.5 billion euros
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Athens hopes lower bond yields strengthen case for reducing fiscal targets
EconomyProgrammeover the weekend that the issue has already been raised with the country’s official lenders... presenting the new government’s achievements in its first month in office, he stressed that trust.... Petsas suggested that the positive developments regarding Greece’s borrowing costs are having
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SYRIZA launches internal dialogue to tackle questions of identity, future direction
PoliticsGreek Politicsstruggled to break 4 percent just a decade ago. The party’s leader, former prime minister Alexis Tsipras... aim is to cement and extend SYRIZA’s hold on a significant portion of the electorate and retain its..., and will be formalised in a series of meetings and appointments to the party’s decision-making bodies over
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Mitsotakis takes growth message to Thessaloniki, keeps eye on bond profits
PoliticsGreek Politicshis government’s efforts to make Greece more business-friendly and to attract investments. The weight... in northern Greece. This came after the Council of State upheld the company’s appeals against previous... on Saturday to set out his government’s plans for expanding the economy. He is expected to announce
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Newsletter 221 -27/09/2019
that numbers add up Discussions between the government and Greece’s lenders regarding the fourth review..., as in the volume of 1.2 billion euros they cover the entirety of Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s pledges. Related to the fiscal debate is the growth projection for next year, that the Greek The country’s lenders
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Mitsotakis eyes Christmas handout, tries to rally support for diaspora vote proposal
PoliticsGreek Politics, which is one of the government’s legislative goals for the rest of the year. “We will meet.... Although New Democracy was critical in the past of SYRIZA’s policy of handing out any excess surplus... this with French President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to first cut the wealth tax, which Mitsotakis
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