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Tsipras to get election campaign underway as parties target middle class voters
PoliticsGreek Politics’s positive measures. However, much of the media coverage over the weekend has focussed on the fact... to this criticism by pointing out that it has already implemented a lot of relief measures, including the rent... and the appointment of relatives as parliamentary staff. The left-wing party has already legislated the reversal
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Surge in Covid-19 deaths as work on adjusted 2021 budget nears completion
PoliticsGreek Politicsout, was roughly equal to half the deaths Greece has registered since the virus emerged. Between... to stymie the virus, the government has closed down primary schools. The move has drawn complaints from... keep schools open. This has been obscured to some extent by the political row that has broken out
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Govt views pandemic window as opportunity to advance contentious reform agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicswith the more positive economic recovery agenda. On the pensions front, New Democracy has been preparing.... The government has made assurances that the entitlements of existing beneficiaries and workers... to confrontation, however the government is already signalling that it has no intention of backing down
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Newsletter 304 - 09/07/2021
and the economy at large, apart from public health, have presented the government with a problem it has..., in keeping with the rising numbers earlier in the week and way up on last week’s figures. There has... Gerapetritis reiterated the position speaking to Skai 100.3 on Thursday. He said the economy has finite
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SYRIZA sees opportunity in tepid response to govt initiatives, PM's cosseting of right wing
PoliticsGreek Politicsof 800 euros. The timing of Tsipras’s speech could prove opportune for SYRIZA, which has struggled... governing option for Greece. Tsipras has repeatedly, but ineffectively, targeted this section... of efficiency, SYRIZA may feel that it has a better chance of finding voters who backed ND in 2019
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ND keeps eye on upcoming local elections amid ongoing complaints about wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politicssector. In the meantime, though, the PM also has one eye on the local elections coming up on October... forest fire, which has burned more than 800 square kilometres, making it the largest wildfire recorded... Efi Achtsioglou has taken an unexpected turn after US-based businessman Stefanos Kasselakis announced
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Cabinet reshuffle rumoured as scale of flood reconstruction task begins to dawn
PoliticsGreek Politics. It is now believed that much of that production has been wiped out, and the effects will be felt... Greece for failure to update the national flood risk management plan. The issue has also been... has also tabled a question calling on the government to account for the recent request to remove flood
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Parliamentary chicanery raises doubt about PM’s grip on party as he looks ahead to relief package
PoliticsGreek Politicswithdraw his MPs and then only let them participate remotely has raised questions about whether he feared... costs. This, in turn, has prompted speculation about whether the PM still retains a tight grip over his parliamentary group or whether it has started to loosen as the government becomes caught up
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Tsipras gets full support in pension and income tax vote, moves on to Eurogroup
PoliticsGreek Politicswithout dismissing large numbers of civil servants. The conservative chief has so far not revealed... said on Sunday that apart from the pension and income tax reforms passed on Sunday, it has... to Reuters on Saturday on the need for Monday’s Eurogroup to break the “vicious cycle” in Greece. Gabriel has
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Newsletter 208 -31/05/2019
share of the vote by 3 or 4 points to ensure that it has a clear and prominent future on the Greek... has been given to the head of strategic planning and communication, Takis Theodorikakos, also... on Sunday, less than 2 percent of the total, in a disappointing performance. This has raised questions
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