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Surveillance scandal produces more damaging revelations for ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsaddress to the United Nations general assembly later this week, the prime minister’s administration..., apparently disappearing during an upgrade of the agency’s surveillance system. Rammos further... the agency while he was general secretary at the Prime Minister’s office. Kontoleon and Dimitriadis
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Turkey's new Libya MoU prompts swift reaction from Athens, which mulls further moves
PoliticsForeign Policyreportedly responded that Turkey must stop questioning the sovereignty of Greece’s Aegean islands. Athens.... “No one can ignore geography. No one can create a virtual world.” Shukry said that Dbeibah’s... Libya’s failure to hold nationwide elections in December last year. He called for the UN to take
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Newsletter 356 - 21/10/2022
resulted in increasing the country’s dependence on natural gas. He also took issue with the privatisation... of dissatisfaction with the government’s response to these challenges, nor any great alignment between the public and the opposition’s stance. Polls released in the past week show New Democracy
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Reports claiming link between spyware and state pile pressure on government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAristides Alexopoulos. The weekly argues that this is further evidence that the Prime Minister’s claim... and Predator. If it is proved that there are more such examples, it would undermine the government’s..., in this case the police, and the use of Predator, running counter to the government’s line
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Energy measures reassure public, as govt scrambles to keep lid on other household costs
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPublic confidence in the government’s ability to tackle rising energy bills is keeping... apiece, bringing them to 3 pct and 2.5 pct respectively. The government’s focus on support measures... Tsipras with 26 pct and PASOK’s Nikos Androulakis with 10 pct. The results are similar with respect
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Pension rises approved as public opinion teeters ahead of election year
PoliticsGreek Politics, decreasing to 28.9 pct. SYRIZA’s backing has edged up from 20.7 to 20.9, while PASOK has dipped from 11.9... to combat the cost-of-living crisis, which is seen as the country’s most significant problem by 33 pct... pct of those questioned. Although 53 pct of Greeks appear unhappy with the government’s performance
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Opposition fails to make inroads in spyware hearing as denials continue
PoliticsGreek Politicsof witnesses included the PM’s former chief of staff, Grigoris Dimitriadis, who resigned over..., and the head of the Israeli parent company Intellexa. Only Dimitriadis appeared to answer MP’s.... Dimitriadis is said to have laid the blame for EYP’s surveillance of PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis
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PM defends grocery stipend, hopes to draw support from PASOK
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPerhaps buoyed by a new opinion poll showing a slight bounce in his party’s ratings, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis mounted a stout defence on Wednesday of his government’s latest handout, which... also used recently against those who criticised the government’s “household basket” scheme aimed
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Resignation keeps surveillance issue in spotlight
PoliticsGreek Politicswas standing aside so he could take part in New Democracy’s upcoming election campaign. There was some... to Smyrlis departure by labelling him “Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s man at the Foreign Ministry... the export of Predator punched a hole in the government’s line of defence, which was to claim not to know
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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... school pupils start their university entrance exams in the summer. The PM’s decision to move forward... ruffling the church’s feathers, another option would be to hold the election on April 2, or to wait until
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