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PM offers shopping bill subsidy as surveillance scandal threatens to spill over into judicial crisis
PoliticsGreek Politics. The 6-month scheme, for which 650 million euros, has been budgeted will see up to 10 pct of each... Greeks through the cost-of-living crisis. Over the last year or so, the centre-right government has... on Friday that Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) has been conducting its own
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SYRIZA pushes alternative cost-of-living package but govt support still a vote-winner
PoliticsGreek Politicsbudget statement has attracted strong criticism from the opposition. New Democracy’s main rival SYRIZA has responded by outlining an alternative package to combat the effects of inflation, however... of pandemic-era debts. The announcement offered more detail than the opposition party has presented
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Election date seen hanging in balance as PM weighs pros and cons
PoliticsGreek Politicsweighing on the PM’s decision. Mitsotakis has already indicated that the ballot, the first... by one month, from May 1 to April 1, the implementation of the next increase to the minimum wage has... campaign across the Aegean. Another factor that the Greek media has highlighted over the past few
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Opposition dismisses PM's economic pledges as electioneering, keeps focus on surveillance
PoliticsGreek Politicswill be called for April 9. Mitsotakis has had a busy schedule of public appearances in recent weeks, promoting.... The government has also made a number of moves which are widely interpreted as signs of impending... in 10 say the government’s “shopping basket” has not been effective at lowering prices of essential
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Seeking showdown in Parliament, SYRIZA tables censure motion over surveillance report
PoliticsGreek Politicsissue to the attention of the public which has so far remained aloof. To date, most of the coverage of the surveillance affair has been limited to small-circulation media or upstart news websites, and this has allowed New Democracy to dismiss it as at best a niche partisan concern, and in the worst
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PM hails uptake of food voucher scheme amid growing evidence of hardship
PoliticsGreek Politicsqualify for the means-tested benefit which runs until July has an envelope of 650 million euros... and of scoffing at measures which offer support for hard-pressed households. SYRIZA has argued... that it has picked the right strategy by focussing on handouts to tackle the cost of living, given
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ND suffers ratings blow after train crash, hopes time is on its side
PoliticsGreek Politicshas declined, raising questions about whether the ruling centre-right party can win an outright... has not increased, it will have to consider that a decline of 3 points in its own backing could... in the government has been shaken and that New Democracy's usually slick communications strategy when
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Lenders confident of being well-placed to overcome global banking sector turbulence
EconomyBanking, levels not seen since 2011. Combined with the deleveraging that has been ongoing during the debt crisis and has pushed the stock of loans in January this year to 113.4 billion euros and one of the most... attracted a lot of interest and was 5.7x oversubscribed. Piraeus also has an AT1 issue outstanding
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PASOK's Androulakis eyes kingmaker role as margin between main players shrinks
PoliticsGreek Politics. The New Democracy president has been trying to corner Androulakis on the subject ever since his election... foothold for its agenda. Mitsotakis, on the other hand, has tended to treat the first vote... digits briefly after his rise to the leadership, it has subsequently failed to hold on to its ratings
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Leaders hit campaign trail as ratings remain finely balanced
PoliticsGreek Politicssupport is at 26.2 pct. This is the lowest that Metron has recorded for the conservatives since... at the beginning of March, suggesting that any damage done by the deadly railway collision has now come... to be profiting from the decline in ND’s ratings, has gained a point since the last survey and has risen
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