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PM seeks to leave ICU controversy behind as Tsipras ups stakes with snap election call
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the pandemic, fuelled by the Omicron variant, and that it should resign, prompting snap elections. This call... likely that Tsipras’s decision to call for Mitsotakis to step down was triggered by the recent change... been prompted by several things, including the fact that ND has been finding itself on the defensive
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KINAL and To Potami snub Tsipras's call for progressives to pull together
PoliticsGreek Politicslater this year are prompting as much a rejection of SYRIZA’s call for cooperation...) and centrist To Potami, to throw their weight behind SYRIZA. Tsipras’s call comes in the wake of his... Parliament, which would increase the threshold needed for the winning party to gain a clear
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Newsletter 488 - 12/12/2025
Development Minister Kostas Tsiaras echoed the call for dialogue, insisting that constructive... others saw them as legitimate pressure. The findings highlighted the government’s dilemma: appearing... MPs vented frustration at Tsiaras, warning they were being “beaten up out there” and even feared
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Revenues at 4.77 bln in Oct, beating target for fourth straight month
Economyto the targets being beaten over the last four months, even though there is a steady increase in unpaid...The final budget execution to October confirmed preliminary figures, released by the Ministry of Finance (MoF) on November 13, showing revenues beating monthly targets by 763 million euros
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Is the cost of Greece's public sector soaring again?
EconomyFeaturescuts that preceded the SYRIZA-ANEL government. While some of the claims of rampant hiring...As Greece approaches the end of its bailout programme, claims are emerging that the SYRIZA-ANEL... risen by 600 million euros since the SYRIZA/ANEL government took office. This claim is supported
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Newsletter 271 -30/10/2020
that a large portion of workers fell into one of three categories: Either they saw their work suspended... at 7.01 bln September figure confirmed as missing target by 9.58 billion euros The budget primary balance recorded a deficit of 7.01 billion euros in the first nine months of 2020, compared to a surplus
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EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
Agoraor moderates in Greece, have chosen to ignore this because they saw it as a means to an end (kicking... coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL), with which Greek Solution has some similarities. ANEL went... career (at least for now) of its leader Panos Kammenos. Many of the 155,000 votes ANEL lost ended up
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Greece holds Western Balkan meeting to reaffirm support for neighbours' EU prospects
PoliticsForeign Policyrepresented by Helga Schmid, Secretary General of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and Maciej... Council. The stance taken by French President Emmanuel Macron prompted Athens to realise
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Mitsotakis backs Ukraine as Athens tries to balance position with Trump administration
PoliticsForeign Policythat “nothing can be decided for Ukraine without Ukraine”. Following his telephone call with Ukraine’s president Volodimir Zelensky on Saturday, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that he would join today’s leaders’ call... Trump’s call Zelensky a dictator. He said that the US president has a special way to express himself
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Assorted obstacles block path to change of parties in coalition
PoliticsGreek Politicsways with coalition partner Panos Kammenos and his Independent Greeks (ANEL) party. However... suggest the current SYRIZA-ANEL administration is about to turn into a centre-left alliance. The first... into softening his position. Although a final decision is due this week, comments from the ANEL leader
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