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Waning support in opinion polls generates concern for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the ruling New Democracy party, especially as one shows the centre-right grouping’s projected... behind the social democrats amid party infighting. The poll’s projected results show New Democracy... direction, while the share of positive views about the government’s performance have fallen from 35
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Mitsotakis and Kasselakis compete to burnish patriotic credentials
PoliticsGreek Politics’s links with the Greek far right, his conviction for illegal possession of arms in 1995 and his... of an “extreme nationalist” given what was known about Beleri’s involvement with armed paramilitary groups and his more recent support for the Greek neonazi party Golden Dawn. Defending Beleri’s record
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Bar on extreme right party triggers developments across political spectrum
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s Supreme Court has blocked the far-right Spartiates party from running in June’s European... with defrauding voters based on evidence provided by the party’s leader Vassilios Stigas. The Supreme Court... to be in the running, while a portion of the party’s supporters are expected to abstain. More radical
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Party leaders dispute response to cost-of-living crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsand water. Mitsotakis hit back at his critics on Friday, dismissing SYRIZA’s proposals as being too costly... that the cost of SYRIZA’s suggested measures over a four-year term would amount to almost 46 billion euros (more than a quarter of Greece’s annual GDP). He said that this was based on calculations made
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Watchdog's ruling in voter email leak prompts opposition calls for minister to resign
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe MEP’s office, many claiming that the messages were sent to email addresses that they had used for the sole purpose of registering for voting from abroad in last year’s general elections. According..., sent it to New Democracy’s then Secretary for Diaspora Affairs, Nikos Theodoropoulos, according
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Greece targets seat on UN Security Council as North Macedonia row rumbles on
PoliticsForeign PolicyThe United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote on Thursday regarding Greece’s candidacy... Gerapetritis is in New York to promote the country’s bid and is participating in supporting events ahead... Antonio Guterres. The meeting focused on Greece’s bid for the non-permanent seat at the Security Council
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Lacklustre performance in EP elections raises key questions for mainstream parties
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPolitical parties in Greece are digesting the results of Sunday’s European Parliament elections... 5 points lower than PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s stated target of 33. The conservative ruling party... headed off any question of a snap election, stating that he saw it as his party’s task to get
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PM set to avoid kneejerk reaction to poor EP poll result as centre left mulls next move
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s assessment of Sunday’s disappointing European Parliament... for another party. Sunday’s elections produced the lowest ever turnout in Greece, at just over 40 pct. He.... Some of his ministers had suggested that right-wing voters were displeased with the government’s
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Fresh turbulence at SYRIZA as opposition parties take aim at bank deal
PoliticsGreek Politicspartly under state ownership as the result of a rescue deal. Eight members of the party’s political... after a number of participants expressed concern with Kasselakis’s proposal to hold the conference..., and several politicians close to Kasselakis’s predecessor Alexis Tsipras. On this occasion
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No holiday from rancour over Athens wildfire as PM accused of downplaying damage
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s political leadership used the traditional wishes on the Dormition holiday to express solidarity with the victims of the catastrophic Athens wildfire, but PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s message... with the administration’s response to earlier disasters such as the Tempe rail crash and the previous years’ fires
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