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Opposition parties press ahead with Tempe moves in Parliament as PM draws lines of defence
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is looking to recover from last week’s mass protests over the Tempe train crash... by the unfortunately. Although the discussion on Triantopoulos’s fate will be over by Tuesday evening... the pressure on Mitsotakis over an issue that has become the government’s biggest millstone, PASOK
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Government struggles to escape stigma of Tempe aftermath build-up to confidence vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis’s government is set to survive a confidence vote in Parliament on Friday... colleagues. New Democracy’s comfortable majority in Parliament meant that the censure motion submitted by five opposition parties did not have any chance of leading to the government’s downfall
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PM convenes emergency meeting to work out tariff response strategy
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presided over a rare meeting of the government’s economic... cheese from the tariffs announced last week. Around a third of Greece’s exports to the US... Mitsotakis’s nearly six-year tenure as PM to discuss policy. Mitsotakis referenced the tariff issue
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Mitsotakis to resume tour of ministries as opponents struggle to gain traction
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s return from his brief break for Easter also marks the resumption of his visits to government ministries as he tries to revive his administration’s fortunes, which..., the Energy and Environment Ministry on Thursday and the Social Cohesion Ministry on Friday. Wednesday’s
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ND looks to preserve recent poll gains as Tempe issue returns to centre stage
PoliticsGreek Politicsand months preceding the accident. PASOK is expected to propose that New Democracy’s Karamanlis should face... SYRIZA minister, to also face felony charges. PASOK’s expected proposal, due to be tabled this Monday... and was then re-elected as an MP, to be held accountable for Greece’s worst rail disaster. Trend continues
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Opposition amps up criticism over Gaza stance and farming payments scandal
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament. The European prosecutor’s probe into agricultural payments has also been seized... vociferously over its decision to vote against a motion by other EU member states to revise the bloc’s... Androulakis called the government’s stance an “insult” to the Greek people, while he described Israel’s
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Tsipras pitch for progressive opposition presents New Democracy with new adversary
PoliticsGreek Politicsof uniting the country’s progressive parties and get citizens “off the couch”. In the strongest hint... spokesman Pavlos Marinakis dismissed Tsipras’s critique as irrelevant, claiming the former PM’s own... was responsible for capital controls, and disastrous negotiations with the country’s creditors, while
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Unhappy voters struggle to find alternatives as PM faces fresh attack from veteran conservatives
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the prime minister’s foreign policy choices. The latest poll by Alco shows New Democracy widening... by social democrats PASOK. PASOK has returned to second place, with Zoe Konstantopoulou’s Course for Freedom... with the accident. Since March, a steady 55 pct are not satisfied with Mitsotakis’s performance
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Mitsotakis defends his record against backdrop of tough migration package
PoliticsGreek Politicsarrivals to mark New Democracy’s six years in power. The prime minister launched an attack on his.... The announcements come a day after an EU-led delegation of migration ministers, including Greece’s Thanos... president and constitutional expert Evangelos Venizelos questioned the government’s use of emergency
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Newsletter 471 - 18/07/2025
with prosecutorial powers, it completely sidesteps the European Public Prosecutor’s Office findings.... SYRIZA accused the government of ignoring critical evidence in the EPPO’s file, while... targeting the same ministers. PASOK’s version charges them with misappropriation and collusion, while
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