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KINAL launches leadership contest to settle internal disquiet ahead of elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAs Greece’s main political parties gear up for what is widely seen as an extended election campaign..., whenever those take place. During her term, Gennimata is credited with increasing the party’s share... as the defender of the PASOK legacy, claiming that the party’s rebranding is partly responsible
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France defence pact secures strong backing despite questions over finances, motives
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s defence agreement with France, including the purchase of at least three warships, received... a mutual defence element that means France could come to Greece’s assistance if the latter comes under attack, and vice-versa. The vote in Thursday’s plenary saw 191 MPs back the deal and 109 vote
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Athens turns attention to Libya, advocates EastMed energy cooperation
PoliticsForeign Policy, it enhances Greece’s arguments against Turkey. The very same issue was raised by the Greek premier... for the EU,” he said. The proposal by Mitsotakis highlights that Europe’s energy autonomy... is putting a lot of emphasis on Libya’s future. In this context, Mitsotakis is planning to visit Paris
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Government under fire for indecision on Covid measures
PoliticsGreek Politicsquick to restrict movement. Tuesday’s announcement is representative of ND’s wish to hold off..., Health Minister Thanos Plevris has played down the new variant’s impact since only a low number... definitive statements from officials that are soon nixed, has started to irk even some of the government’s
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Snow chaos puts government planning on the spot
PoliticsGreek Politicslearned the lessons of last year’s storm “Medea”, which had caused disruption on the roads and left large sections of Athens’s northern suburbs without power for several days. Schools in the capital... The chaotic outcome suggests that little has changed in the government’s emergency planning, despite
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Fallout from Ukraine war being fed into calculations about next general elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the end of the government’s four-year term towards next summer, to be held this year. Petsas... in other fields,” he said. SYRIZA responded by labelling Petsas’s comments a “cynical admission... a parliamentary majority. A report in Saturday’s Ta Nea rekindled speculation about a possible change
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Greece needs to re-think natural gas policy, starting with demand
Agorato rethink Greece’s “dash for gas”? The European Union’s REPowerEU action plan outlined on March 8 in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine calls for a reduction in imports of Russian gas by two thirds... significantly more in the coming years. In very blunt terms, though, if Greece were to follow the EU’s middle
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SYRIZA and KINAL focus on settling internal issues as they clear path to elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAgainst the backdrop of a growing cost-of-living crisis that is eating away at New Democracy’s... proposed that SYRIZA’s president and central committee should be elected directly by party members, rather... of much of SYRIZA’s activity over the next couple of weeks. The ballot will be a chance for Tsipras
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Effort to keep Greek-Turkish ties on even keel put under stress
PoliticsForeign PolicyMinister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come under strain over... Staff. Turkey’s actions took place in areas of the Aegean it calls “grey zones”. Meanwhile, Turkish... are NATO allies. We expect a rational approach with rational people. We invite them to meet. Turkey’s
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Mitsotakis underlines geopolitical and ideological links between Greece and US
PoliticsGreek Politicswill not accept a two-state solution for Cyprus and that he wants Turkey’s challenges to Greek sovereign rights to stop. Mitsotakis wrapped up the Turkey issue within the question of stability on NATO’s... partnership,” is how the Greek Premier described the MDCA. He also stressed Greece’s role
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