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Comfortable lead allows Mitsotakis to play it safe as Tsipras makes last-ditch attempt
PoliticsGreek Politics. The opposition party’s big lead in the opinion polls has even forced Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to lift.... It is being seen as a last, and somewhat desperate, attempt by Tsipras to take on the government’s... percent still undecided. Rass sees six parties making it into Parliament, which Yanis Varoufakis’s
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Mitsotakis earns space to govern with big win, Tsipras limits damage
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSunday’s elections delivered a big win for Kyriakos Mitsotakis and New Democracy, which will have... his cabinet on Tuesday. The nature of the Sunday’s win should mean that he does not have to make too... priorities in his first days in office. SYRIZA Despite losing power, it is likely that Mitsotakis’s rival
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Mitsotakis holds inaugural cabinet meeting, lines up first draft legislation
PoliticsGreek Politicson the state’s executive process. However, it will also foresee the scrapping of the university...’s tearful rejection of the allegations during parliamentary debate last year was used against SYRIZA, strengthening ND’s accusations regarding the former government’s efforts to manipulate
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National Bank first to test market waters in post-election afterglow
Economydrop in the Athens Stock Exchange index in the first two days after Sunday’s victory for New... aftermath of the event. The index has recovered some of those losses and is still up 16 percent since May’s European elections, when Greek markets first embarked on a wild party in anticipation of Sunday’s
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Fiscal targets and tax cuts on agenda as Staikouras meets Regling
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy’s fiscal plans, which include the tabling of its first tax legislation towards the end... might have to water this down as the tax cuts will reduce next year’s fiscal space by another 2 billion euros. Kathimerini suggested on Sunday that this year’s ENFIA reduction, a 10 percent average
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Continuity and priorities
Agorafor relations with Turkey and issues related to cooperation with NATO allies. As New Democracy’s... Greece's doctrine on the Cyprus issue, which is: Nicosia decides, and Athens will act accordingly. Greece’s... at the conference that the agreement “leaves room through our neighbour’s European integration process
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New Democracy tax pledges put spotlight on available fiscal space
EconomyProgramme, with others to follow, focus is turning to the government’s ability to find the fiscal space... will have confirmed whether this year’s primary surplus reached 3.5 percent or more. However... this year, while somewhere between 1.3 and 1.6 billion will be required in 2020. This year’s potential
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New government aims for extensive changes to education system
SocietyGreece’s Education Minister Niki Kerameus announced New Democracy’s plans for changes in the Greek.... In her speech to Parliament earlier this week, outlining the government’s education strategy... Democracy’s aim was to ensure equal access to quality education for all. Kerameus said
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ND sees first tax cuts as fair, hopes to build case for lower fiscal targets
PoliticsGreek Politicsof homeowners and thereby fulfilling one of New Democracy’s key pre-election pledges. The tax bill... of a break to those who own smaller homes. SYRIZA’s former deputy finance minister Katerina Papanatsiou... to SYRIZA’s proposed reduction. Papanatsiou accused the conservatives of directing half of this to just
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MPs to vote on changes to governing process as opposition hits out at ND
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government bill regarding the executive arm of the state is due to go before Parliament’s full... Mitsotakis’s plan for a more effective way of governing that will involve a top-down approach, but also ensure that the civil service retains a degree of continuity. The bill’s provisions aim to install
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