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Approval of street protest law a potential source of political tumult
PoliticsGreek Politicsnumbers 22 MPs, on Friday. All eyes are on whether this has caused an irreparable rift within...) in the opinion polls, its status in Greek politics carries some significance because it has held... the last few days to show a slight narrowing of the large lead New Democracy has over SYRIZA. Support
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Athens gears up for exploratory talks with Ankara after long hiatus
PoliticsForeign PolicyKalkavan, will also be part of the team. He has an excellent knowledge of technical issues as he has taken part in many talks over Confidence Building Measures between the two sides and has worked... Kougiou, who has served as an Ambassador to Ankara, and Ifigeneia Kanara who is currently
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PM reins in rush to re-open economy as vaccines proceed slowly
PoliticsGreek Politics. Mitsotakis has indicated that he wants 17,500 jabs a day to be conducted by the end of the month... of February. He has argued that the slow pace has been dictated by the meagre number of doses arriving in the country until now. Nevertheless, Mitsotakis has tried to put himself, and his government
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Minister's clash with catering sector highlights pitfalls ahead as pandemic squeezes economy
PoliticsGreek Politicsas the coronavirus has knocked the 2021 budget off track after just the first month of the year... that the situation since the start of the year has evolved worse than expected and that the closure... about the fiscal restrictions the government faces. He noted that Greece also has as a high debt
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Newsletter 279 - 05/03/2021
Kikilias, the stock of Covid beds in the Attica region, which includes Athens, has been increased... data on a non-compliant public, New Democracy has also left itself open to repeated criticism... with the government, 60% of respondents expressed negative sentiments and 39% positive. This has had
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Slide in press freedom rankings casts spotlight on govt relations with media
PoliticsGreek Politics, the distribution of public funds to the media during the pandemic has attracted criticism from other... allegations of bias and lack of transparency in its distribution - the government has allocated an additional... and that of another journalist, however the charges do not appear to relate to this allegation. The case has
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IMF raises outlook on Greek debt sustainability to merely 'uncertain'
Economy. Overall, the IMF’s view has not substantially changed on Greece after more than one year... has a long-standing estimate of the country’s long-term growth rate at under 1 pct on average..., though the IMF noted that progress has been made in securitisations through the Hercules Asset
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Mitsotakis and Erdogan break ice, look for calm summer
PoliticsForeign Policydevelopments in Cyprus and the statements Erdogan has said he will make on July 20. The meeting between... applications have been rejected by the Greek authorities. The Greek request for the returns has been pending since last January, while the European Commission has also intervened, without result
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Wildfires rekindle longstanding political battle as heatwave forces agenda change
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe New Democracy administration has been in power, it has used the limited death toll in its... there is a large blaze to protect against casualties. Even the coast guard has been called in when necessary. In all its communication around the fires, the government has stressed above all
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ND continues to lead polls amid economic worries, while former PM mulls return to frontline politics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKINAL and current leader Fofi Gennimata out of the race, speculation has been mounting that former Prime... Andreas Papandreou has made a series of interventions in recent days which have been widely interpreted as testing the waters for a leadership bid. Papandreou has communicated separately with the six
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