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Mitsotakis appeals to centre-ground voters in bid to score decisive victory
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the gap has been narrowing over the past few weeks and there is a sense that the opposition party... this government has done? How can a progressive citizen say that Tsipras and Mitsotakis are the same thing... at the electoral stand of centre-right candidate for Athens mayor Kostas Bakoyiannis on Tuesday, has
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Tsipras targets pensioners with final pledge as Mitsotakis woos undecided voters
PoliticsGreek Politicsin this Sunday's elections. This represents the latest pledge made by SYRIZA in this campaign, where it has..., the government has moved forward by a few days the payment days of June pensions for a range... by the government and the further interventions it is examining would be put in doubt. He has made
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SYRIZA unveils array of pledges to win over voters ahead of July 7 vote
PoliticsGreek Politicswants to send after its disastrous campaign for the European Parliament elections. Tsakalotos has taken... time that Tsipras has been flanked by a broader team, rather than acting as the spearhead of SYRIZA’s... also maintained the more moderate tone he has adopted since his party’s heavy defeat in the EU
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Report exposes fractured and incomplete response to refugees
SocietyA report by Pro Asyl and Refugee Support Aegean has heavily criticised Greece’s asylum seeker... the Greek authorities and positive feedback from the European Commission, recruitment has remained... and had to subject its operations to audits. The outcome has been highly detrimental to the health
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Outright majority in sight for ND as campaign takes detour through recent past
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe campaign for the July 7 elections has taken a brief detour through Greece’s recent past.... Tsipras has been careful over the last years not to heap criticism on Karamanlis and his 2004-9...-softly approach. “He spoke for 1.5 minute for every year he has been silent,” said Tsipras when
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Comfortable lead allows Mitsotakis to play it safe as Tsipras makes last-ditch attempt
PoliticsGreek Politics. The opposition party’s big lead in the opinion polls has even forced Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to lift... to suggest that such last-ditch efforts will be in vain as New Democracy has too big and decisive a lead... this campaign, New Democracy has sought to win votes from the right, preventing them from going to ultra
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Newsletter 213 -07/01/2019
that much of the focus over the last few days has been on what Mitsotakis plans to do if he becomes... where there has been significant progress but it also highlights several risks and makes proposals... are of the utmost importance - public investment, which has been drastically curtailed in recent years
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Mitsotakis pleads for strong mandate as polls suggest ND heading for landslide win
PoliticsGreek Politicshas been drawing support from ultranationalist Greek Solution since the European Parliament elections... also appealed to traditional right-wing voters by returning to the law and order issue that has... magazine. The opposition leader has repeatedly vowed to clamp down on this kind of activity, accusing
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National Bank first to test market waters in post-election afterglow
Economyaftermath of the event. The index has recovered some of those losses and is still up 16 percent since May’s... and when it intends to tap bond markets. While the government has clearly acknowledged the central... to lend, coverage of the issue has been subdued in the government’s first days as tax cuts and the dire
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New Parliament sworn in as Mitsotakis picks top civil servants, maintains status quo with church
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy has traditionally enjoyed a close relationship with the church and resisted the previous..., who many believed destined to lead To Potami, said that he has stepped down from the centrist.... The lack of female appointments has again been noted in some of the local media as there were just
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