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ND tries to stay on top of wildfire as court battle looms over Competition Commission
PoliticsGreek PoliticsEvia on Wednesday after visiting the fire brigade’s control centre in Athens and holding talks..., including last summer’s devastating fire in Mati, near Athens. Apart from returning from his holidays..., Mitsotakis is departing from Tsipras’s practice of avoiding disaster sites and only visiting days after
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Growing Greece: From narrative to reality
AgoraMitsotakis is building on the platform provided by his party’s election victory in July. Apart from... for the kind of liberal economic policies that were anathema in the past. Of course, ND’s manifesto... there is clearly plenty of room for improvement. ND is bringing all of the government’s IT services
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Athens waits for credit rating upgrade as 10-year yield drops to new low
Economyauthorities as strong demand for Greece’s public debt keeps pushing borrowing costs down. The 10-year... with the yield settling at 0.095 percent. On October 8, Greece’s Public Debt Management Agency... 2029 that was issued earlier this year. Greece’s debt managers managed to achieve a reoffer yield
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Newsletter 224 -25/10/2019
, Mitsotakis likened his government’s plan to a triangle, with the three sides consisting of reforms to attract... ahead with the diaspora vote which has long been in demand by Greece’s overseas voters. the government can prepare to share out the additional surplus from this year’s budget, which has been estimated
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PM outlines social dividend plans as Tsipras points way for SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Sunday how this year’s excess primary surplus will be spread out, overshadowing much of New Democracy’s congress and an apparent break from the party... electorate and media have become attuned over the years to assessing a government’s performance
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PM gets no change out of opposition leaders on US trip, electoral law
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the cameras regarding how best to deal with jet lag, it was clear from the opposition politician’s... and Washington. The two countries signed in October, during Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit... there is “actual support from our allies for our sovereign rights.” The SYRIZA leader’s comments came
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The "great replacement" comes to Greece - how a far-right meme appeared in mainstream politics
Societydebate around Greece’s demographic crisis appears to have been hijacked by a nativist, quasi... women’s right to abortion and the right of the advertisers to free speech. The poster was removed within... such as ND’s Giorgos Patoulis, who is currently serving as governor of the Attica administrative region
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PM faces complex challenge as Turkey threatens free passage for refugees
PoliticsGreek Politicspressure on the EU to support Ankara’s actions in Syria, where 33 Turkish troops were killed... to counter what would be seen as outright blackmail by Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In reality, there is little Mitsotakis can do apart from fend off inflows at Greece’s land and sea borders
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Sealing our borders, closing our minds
Agorachallenge it has created. We can decry Erdogan’s tactics but the fear, division and cynicism... Europe gave him the upper hand a long time ago. On Greece’s part, in purely political terms Prime... is the one area where his government’s opinion poll ratings have been very poor since coming to power
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Amid Eurogroup stalemate, Athens focusses on extra liquidity available after ECB move
EconomyTuesday’s Eurogroup teleconference ended in disagreement and is set to be repeated on Thursday... to borrow up to 2 percent of their GDP from the fund. In Greece’s case, this translates into 4 billion euros. It is worth noting that this would be barely enough to cover a month’s worth of spending
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