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Mitsotakis targets working class votes, centre-left struggles with leadership race
PoliticsGreek Politicsclass – a section of society where his party is competing for votes with SYRIZA, which has repeatedly... in the working class neighbourhood of Nikaia, near Piraeus, on Sunday. ND spokesman Vassilis Kikilias said... Democracy is elitist or focussed on the middle class. He made a point of insisting that he is trying
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PM targets middle class voters as he eyes return to normality
PoliticsGreek Politicsout of a six-month lockdown, New Democracy’s aim is to reconnect with middle class voters, who formed... said: “We are returning to the middle class everything that SYRIZA took away from them.” His comment... strongly in 2019 on the message that SYRIZA had over-taxed the middle class because of its left-wing
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Mitsotakis looks ahead to tax tweaks for middle class, welcomes back errant MP
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s focus in the New Year will be on reconnecting with middle class... is going to be on working towards a new taxation system, which can ease the burden on middle class... relationship with voters, particularly those in the middle class that may have backed ND in the past
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Athens goes along with EU over Libya, waits for Turkey's move at UN
PoliticsForeign Policyaiming to prevent any shipment of arms to Libya’s two factions. The operation will involve the deployment of warships to enforce the United Nations arms embargo on Libya. According to the EU foreign... as in Libya. Greece was not invited, again, to the Berlin process aiming for a solution for the Libyan crisis
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Tsipras to get election campaign underway as parties target middle class voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsclass. Tsipras is due to visit President Prokopis Pavlopoulos late on Monday afternoon to ask... to unveil plans to provide the middle class with relief and to create 500,000 jobs over the next... issues and a middle class-friendly economic policy are seen as three of the most important elements
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Italian support over Libya buoys Athens as it looks to build broad East Med alliance
PoliticsForeign PolicyJurisdictions Memorandum that Turkey signed last November with the UN-backed government in Libya... signed by Libya and Turkey on the delimitation of the continental shelf is unacceptable, infringes... on the issue of Libya. Government spokesman Stelios Petsas confirmed on Tuesday press reports that Greece
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If you think it's bleak for Greece now, wait until tomorrow
Agorathat is run by a political class with limited strategic capacity and is allergic to any type of change... productivity growth since 1970 has been averaging 0.7 percent, by far the lowest in the euro area, which
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Changes to energy subsidies aimed at winning over middle class
PoliticsGreek Politicswith their premises. Voters targeted The main thrust of the measures was aimed at middle class voters, who New... for the middle class,” was the headline on the top story of government-friendly Kathimerini newspaper
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Sale of defence manufacturer stokes opposition criticism amid bid to bolster regional ties
PoliticsGreek Politicsstrong condemnations of the government’s decision to sell vehicle manufacturer ELVO (Hellenic Vehicle... in Libya, which are seen as crucial to defending maritime territorial rights against Turkish claims, while... transport vehicles used by the Greek armed forces, as well as buses for civilian and military uses
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Newsletter 280 -15/01/2020
year.” He went on to explain that he feels his government is in a strong position, with an eight-seat... of the electorate, which he claims wants the government to address problems without a “strong ideological... the tax burden for businesses and the middle class. A year and a half after the elections, little has
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