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Standoff over civil servants in Greece bears hallmarks of pre-election clash
PoliticsGreek Politicsprominent this week when Attica Governor Rena Dourou declared her opposition to the evaluation scheme... most populous and economically productive region. Her victory in the May local elections drew great publicity domestically and internationally and she has become a figurehead for her party, giving voters
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Mitsotakis bids for nation's soul, Tsipras ramps up handouts
PoliticsGreek Politicssigns of a future alliance between her party and New Democracy. The content of Gennimata’s speech... left her options open regarding what could happen in the future. “Political balances change and new realities are created,” she said, adding that the only “open fronts” her party has are with populism
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Looming vote on Prespes Agreement triggers political upheaval
PoliticsGreek Politics. KINAL leader Fofi Gennimata justified her decision by saying that Theocharopoulos’s stance served Tsipras’s interests. Earlier, Gennimata had said that her party would vote against the agreement, which... his sights on dominating the Greek centre-left. Gennimata believes that her party has
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Newsletter 390 - 21/07/2023
not appear to have universal support, with some in the party feeling that her views are not leftist enough and that SYRIZA will compromise some of its core positions and beliefs under her leadership. In her speech over the weekend, Achtsioglou said that SYRIZA has to disentangle itself from
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Foreign policy tops political agenda as relations with Greece's neighbours come under scrutiny
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSiljanovska-Davkova, refused to use the country’s constitutional name during her swearing-in ceremony... by the VMRO-DPMNE and took 69 pct of the vote in last Wednesday’s runoff ballot. Her actions... Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday. He described Siljanovska-Davkova’s decision not to use her
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Newsletter 423 - 17/05/2024
Siljanovska-Davkova, refused to use the country’s constitutional name during her swearing-in ceremony... led by the VMRO-DPMNE and took 69 pct of the vote in last Wednesday’s runoff ballot. Her actions... Siljanovska-Davkova’s decision not to use her country’s constitutional name as “illegal and inexcusable
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Rental subsidy rekindles political debate over housing crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsfell to 35.2 pct in the second ballot. The Interior Ministry believes the new system will ensure... in Greece. PASOK estimates that 40,000 homes could be made available over a 5-year period on low rent... properties held by banks and bad loan services as part of a push for these homes, estimated to number
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Preparing for a new normal in German politics
Agoraand Chancellor since November 2005, announced her gradual retreat from German politics. First, she... that her chancellorship will come to an end in September 2021 when new federal elections are due in Germany. Provided she reaches that target date with her controversial ‘Grand Coalition’ between the CDU
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Farmers’ boycott scuppers PM meeting as Karystianou fleshes out political vision
PoliticsGreek Politics’ representative Maria Karystianou has shed a little more light on her plans to launch a new political... of certain political actors to her decision, noting that some appeared unsettled by the prospect of her entering politics. She insisted the initiative would not be defined by traditional ideological
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Newsletter 179 -19/10/2018
and local votes. GDP revision shows slight improvement Second estimate strikes positive note as govt submits draft budget Greece’s Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) issued its second estimate of the national... regulation of the European System of National and Regional Accounts ESA 2010. The first estimate for 2017
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