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PM makes delayed Israel visit to offer support, express concerns about humanitarian impact
PoliticsForeign PolicyPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis made a short trip to Israel on Monday to reiterate Athens’s... Minister George Gerapetritis, State Minister Stavros Papastavrou, the director of the Prime... citizens against horrific violence, which saw 1,400 killed, while also agreeing that provisions
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Newsletter 410 - 02/02/2024
PoliticsProtesting farmers open new front for governmentThe government saw a new front open... what they feel are grave threats to their livelihoods, but Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his... of respondents view the farmers’ reasons for protesting negatively. Speaking on Skai radio on Tuesday, the prime
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PM pins hopes on conciliatory approach to soften farmers' protests
PoliticsGreek Politics. Government sources claimed that the meeting took place in a positive climate. The prime minster told... sections of the sector. A representative of the farming associations of Larissa said his members saw...-escalation of protests. This week the prime minister is focussing on seeing through legislation
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Is Greece on track to decouple from fossil gas?
Agoraand which saw Greece forced to build new liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in order to reduce its..., recently, at the Davos Economic Forum, the Greek Prime Minister linked the new LNG terminals... hydrocarbon deposits with an emphasis on fossil gas. In April 2022, the Prime Minister, himself
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Election result triggers rumbling in PASOK about leadership contest
PoliticsGreek Politicsvisible, with centre-left PASOK seemingly at the forefront of developments. As Prime Minister...’s national elections, and even though ND and SYRIZA saw their share of the vote decline compared... was Nikos Papandreou, the brother of the former Prime Minister George Papandrou, who was elected
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Newsletter 430 - 05/07/2024
for the leadership of the centre-left party. Former prime ministers Antonis Samaras and Kostas Karamanlis spoke.... Karamanlis, prime minister between 2004 and 2009, was a little more subdued in his comments.... Hungary, which is in the second worst position, saw hourly wages drop by 15 pct in the same period
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Domestic factors seen playing role in PM's pick for European Commission
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has picked Central Macedonia Governor Apostolos Tzitzikostas... observers believe that one of the prime motivations behind Mitsotakis’s decision was his desire to improve... criticism from sections of the opposition. Wednesday saw the passage of legislation by the Justice
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PM hopes to reset narrative with positive announcements
PoliticsGreek Politics, hoping to put behind him a summer of discontent over inflation and poor public services. The prime... be completed by 2027. Wednesday saw the PM announce in a cabinet meeting a 30-cent reduction in the tolls... by the end of the term, starting with 0.5 points next year. Responding to the prime minister’s
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Mitsotakis gets policy ball rolling as clues sought for decision on next president
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was due to chair his first cabinet meeting of the year on Friday... Cathedral. Some saw this as an attempt by the current president to stake her claim for a second term... conservative prime ministers who served after Simitis – Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras – did
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Newsletter 450 - 7/02/2025
of the pressure associated with the Tempe tragedy to ease this week, Prime Minister Kyriakos... of an inquiry into Triantopoulos, it has been hinted that the prime minister will try to pre-empt... in manufacturing, being stronger than the series trend. Manufacturers saw output growth for the fourth
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