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Verbal exchanges with Turkey intensify, but voters still largely focussed on inflation
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s official account to “avoid dreams, statements and actions... was accompanied by a series of tweets setting out Turkey’s grievances with Greece, including the treatment... Turkish name of “Meis”) in its maritime jurisdiction calculations. Erdogan’s broadsides appear
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Parties trade accusations over alleged interference in institutions
PoliticsGreek Politicsby banks. The objections were voiced in a letter sent to the PM’s office, the Development Minister... of the government and Parliament, otherwise resignation is always an option. SYRIZA’s shadow... “confirm that something is very rotten in Mr Mitsotakis’s state”, while he described the government’s
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Handling of energy crisis under fire as gas interruption tests supply security
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the country’s energy security planning. At a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced.... Earlier on Tuesday, main opposition SYRIZA called New Democracy’s programme of subsidies “crumbs... smuggling. The party’s shadow finance spokeswoman Efi Achtsioglou noted that Greece’s petrol prices
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Parties get into campaign mode as ND mulls possible election dates
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe prospect of early elections is taking on more concrete form, as the government’s calculus... with his predecessor Yanis Varoufakis in order to form an anti-ND coalition. Varoufakis’s MeRA25 party garnered 3.4 pct of the vote in the 2019 national elections, which together with SYRIZA’s 31.5 pct
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Rule of law and media freedom in spotlight after arson attack and European Commission report
PoliticsGreek Politics. The European Commission’s annual Rule of Law report, published on Wednesday, raised concerns about safety... the attack to the critical stance adopted by Real Media’s radio station Real FM to a controversial... parties, including SYRIZA, condemned the arson attack, while SYRIZA’s press spokesman called
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Baerbock visit leaves Athens hopeful of shift in Germany's stance on Greek-Turkish disputes
PoliticsForeign Policyin the Aegean almost brought Greece and Turkey to the brink of a war. But following a visit by Germany’s... to speak frankly about Greek-Turkish issues and the migration situation in the Aegean. Russia’s... integrity and sovereignty. It has changed the way Berlin sees Athens’s insistence that any rhetoric
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Imminent parliamentary clash over phone-tapping puts PM on alert
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s politicians are gearing up for the first head-on clash over phone-tapping next week, which... leader Nikos Androulakis, as well as journalists. The issue will also be looked at by Parliament’s... a judicial investigation into the affair, but is focussed on the leaking of EYP’s activities rather
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Another strong rise for industrial turnover in June as petroleum products drive 43.1 pct increase
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s industrial turnover growth continued on a solid path in June, jumping by 43.1 percent year... posted growth of 18.2 percent in March 2021 and has been growing ever since. June’s growth is the second highest over the last 12 months. Last month’s reading for May was the highest in this series
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Parliament prepares for confrontation over spying as long-term consequences loom
PoliticsGreek Politicson getting to the bottom of EYP’s activities and the possible use of the Predator spyware since New... of the PM’s office soon after coming to power. Since ND has a comfortable majority, it will most likely get its way and Parliament’s institutions and transparency committee will examine surveillance
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Athens pins hopes on pan-European solution for energy crisis, as surveillance affair unfolds
PoliticsGreek Politicssolution is on the way to help with the skyrocketing cost of the government’s energy subsidy... on customer’s bills to over 1.9 billion euros just for the month of September. While some of this cost... to cap the price of natural gas which is gaining most ground. The Commission’s proposals are due
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