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PM hopes to reset narrative with positive announcements
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has launched into a good news offensive at the start of the political season... on the economy, Mitsotakis has been marking each day with an announcement. On Monday, he hailed the arrival.... There will be no generous spending plans announced at this year’s TIF as the government has already
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Poll confirms ND dominance as PASOK hopefuls eye challenger role
PoliticsGreek Politicspercent. Among the smaller parties, hard right Voice of Logic (Foni Logikis) has taken the lead with 4.1... for late November, while Tsipras has maintained his distance from the wrangling of recent weeks... EP elections. The GPO poll finds that Androulakis has the support of just over a third of the party
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ND courts voters with hardline migration bill as pressure grows over farming subsidy scandal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy, has been expected to introduce tougher migration policies since being appointed to the post in March. New Democracy has also been pressured by parties to its right to take stronger measures... applications have been rejected. The minister has previously stated that he believes up to 97 percent
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ND doubles down on stricter migration policy, riling opponents
PoliticsGreek Politicshas to be considered within the current context of Greek politics as well as the heightened flow... the opposition parties, with some MPs questioning their constitutionality. There has also been... Parliament. It appears that the damage caused by the OPEKEPE scandal has convinced Mitsotakis that he
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Mitsotakis targets reforms, but day-to-day challenges set to dominate agenda in 2024
PoliticsGreek Politicsreformist credentials, which are an important part of the image that Mitsotakis has cultivated. However... that SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has suggested that his party could even win the June ballot even though... party due to disagreements with the newcomer has so far failed to capture the Greek public’s
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Child poverty rate in Greece triples in a decade, OECD study finds
Society, which tracks child poverty in developed countries, has shown that Greece was among the countries where child poverty has increased sharply in recent years. Overall, the study found that on average..., the anchored poverty rate since 2008 has grown threefold. This was driven by sharp declines
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Poll numbers encouraging for Mitsotakis and Kasselakis on road to EP vote
PoliticsGreek Politics. Support for ND stood at 31.4, which is the highest it has been for the last five months, as measured... given that it has entered its second term, with a difficult first year, and has suffered wear and tear... to the voting intentions measured, New Democracy is seen gaining 30 pct, while SYRIZA is on 15.5 pct
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Greece's labour market is austerity's biggest casualty
AgoraGreece has the potential to attain by 2020 a GDP in the region of 330 billion euros and a place... time as the 20th economy in the G20 experiences a depression similar to the one Greece has gone... – the last available quarterly data from ELSTAT – the Greek economy has lost 738,000 jobs, a 16.5
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Is the Greek coalition about to cry over fresh milk?
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government’s already strained cohesion. One coalition MP after another has been saying since last week... urban markets.” The government has not given precise details about what it has agreed with the troika...-day and 11-day categories. This has not been well received by a number of New Democracy and PASOK MPs
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European Commission sees some progress in Greece's market reforms
EconomyProgrammeCommission (EC) has outlined that reforms of the public administration, the judicial system and those... development. According to the report, certain indicators are showing that business regulation has been... percent. According to the report, liberalisation has been uneven across professions and further progress
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