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Much riding on EU approval of plan to cap energy prices
PoliticsGreek Politicsto present Athens’s proposal to DG Energy on Wednesday. In total, the government has budgeted 4.3 billion... platform for attacking the government, especially as the cost of living has become the top concern... has sought to place itself prominently and clearly in the pro-Ukraine camp, are guilty
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SYRIZA hope Tsipras re-election ballot will bear fruit as poll figures remain stagnant
PoliticsGreek Politicsby PASOK officials and neutral observers. This has piled the pressure on SYRIZA, which has a lower... members at the last elections, in 2019, but has managed to increase that number to almost 62,000 since... of voting preferences, support for New Democracy has edged up slightly since March, rising by half
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Media freedom concerns continue to bedevil Mitsotakis govt as EC takes note
PoliticsGreek Politicsof disinformation campaigns by unaccountable NGOs. Their response has failed to clear the air regarding significant... of spyware on the same journalist’s phone. The government has once again denied that it engages... to EU funding, which has already been invoked to block Hungary from receiving RRF funds. Perhaps
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Tension with Turkey dominates government agenda at home and abroad
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government in Athens has turned its focus on the deteriorating relations with Turkey, raising... in the eastern Mediterranean with his fellow EU leaders. “Greece is a country which has international law..., Turkish interference has been blamed for summer wildfires in Greece without substantiating evidence
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Where is Odysseus? Part 3 - Participation
Agorasmaller in size. We see, furthermore that in the recent past, the participation rate (PR) has... in Greece. This phenomenon has also been observed in other countries. The PR is now recovering. The next... is around 5 percentage points higher than in Greece. This is quite a large difference, and it has been
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Remaining fiscal space could be squeezed for more cost-of-living measures as tension grows
PoliticsGreek Politicsadministration might use what limited fiscal space remains. The government has already announced... in Brussels, Greece has already allocated over the last 10 months 6.7 billion euros, or 3.7 pct of its GDP.... This belief has been strengthened by the series of trips that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who
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PM trails more relief, insists on dominant role for ND in future govt
PoliticsGreek Politicsand responded with the message he has honed to the question which has arisen repeatedly over recent... in the next electoral contest, has given his views a heightened relevance, which the prime minister was keen... outside his own party as he has done in the past. “The prime minister must be the leader
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Newsletter 342 - 17/06/2022
mid- to late-August, partly because he has to make sure that threats, such as wildfires and Greek... he was comfortable with appointing ministers from outside his own party as he has done in the past... the Novartis affair. The timing of the announcements has raised questions about their potential impact
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Handling of energy crisis under fire as gas interruption tests supply security
PoliticsGreek Politicsminister reiterated his argument that the energy crisis is a global phenomenon to which Greece has been.... The opposition counters that that inflation has exposed structural problems with the Greek markets which...-anticipated regulatory framework for electricity storage, the lack of which has been blamed
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Judges' Novartis decision revives political battle over bribery scandal
PoliticsGreek Politics, including the publisher of left-leaning Documento, Kostas Vaxavanis, who has been involved in a long-running... that SYRIZA has little to shout about since Papangelopoulos, hand-picked by former Prime Minister Alexis... an epidemiological study to boost sales. However, in Greece, nobody has so far been convicted
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