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Grassroots protests highlight public discontent with development policies
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the union of workers in the city’s water utility EYATH supported by the association of musicians... with a recent ruling by the Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court, which ordered... of Greece’s MoUs with its creditors, with HRADF being explicitly a vehicle for privatisation. New
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Move to block far-right fuels conflict between ND and SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament passed on Tuesday the government’s amendment aimed mainly at giving the Supreme Court... SYRIZA. The amendment gives the Supreme Court’s full assembly of judges the ability to ban any party from the elections if its leader is deemed to be just a frontman covering for a group’s actual
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Rise of smaller parties a barrier to decisive result in first elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsin next month’s vote, as well as a second ballot that could follow on July 2. The Pulse poll published... the beginning of the month, to 31 pct, while SYRIZA’s support has remained at 25 pct. PASOK has seen.... This places him well ahead of SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, on 26 pct, and PASOK’s Nikos Androulakis on 9
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Post-election push for Greek-Turkish talks being lined up
PoliticsForeign Policythe diplomatic advisor to the Greek Prime Minister, Anna Maria Boura and the Turkish President’s close aide... internationally accepted rules, while the other side’s positions contradict these principles a lot... with the Greek daily, Naftemporiki Turkey’s main opposition candidate, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, said
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Parties face up to victory and defeat in preparation for fresh elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsinterview on Greek TV following Sunday’s elections, leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on voters to come..., noting that “there is no question about who will come first”. Mitsotakis’s bigger challenge... parties. In Sunday’s vote, far-right Greek Solution edged up to 4.45 percent of the vote, comfortably
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ND moves to squeeze votes out of fringe parties, aided by infighting
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNew Democracy’s lead going into repeat elections in June appears unassailable, but the party... gives the conservatives 39.9 percent versus SYRIZA’s 18.2 percent, widening the gap between first..., while Yianis Varoufakis’s MeRA25 falls short with 1.7 percent. Around 64 percent of respondents told
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Newsletter 386 - 23/06/2023
for a decisive victory in Sunday’s elections, barring any last-minute surprises. While pollsters do have... chance. Even then, though, New Democracy’s support would need to drop to close to 38 pct, from..., particularly on the extreme right of the spectrum, along with Greek Solution and Niki, could make Mitsotakis’s
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Newsletter 389 - 14/07/2023
. It is expected that Alexis Tsipras’s former right-hand man Nikos Pappas and outspoken ex-MP Pavlos Polakis..., at a meeting of the party’s political secretariat on Monday it was decided to stick with the existing plan... president. The final decision, though, rests with the left-wing grouping’s central committee, which
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Fires cast growing shadow as new shipwreck probe is announced
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament was set to vote on the government’s economic bill on Wednesday in the shadow... these bolder interventions over the coming years. Wednesday’s vote was overshadowed by the fatal crash a day... three deaths to occur during these summer’s wildfires, putting a slightly different complexion
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Government pledges land register action in bid to address everyday problems
PoliticsGreek Politicsat the country’s land registry. Numerous reports over the last few days have highlighted long queues, forming... as making it easier for inspections to be carried out. These reactions fit into the government’s... to show support for New Democracy’s candidate for regional governor, referred to this concept in his
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