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Latest data highlights tough day-to-day economic conditions, giving opposition ammunition
Economythis week capture the public’s dissatisfaction with their daily lives, the cost of living and subsequently the government’s record in dealing with those pressing matters for households. In this month’s Metron... by the economy in general with 26 pct, also up from the previous month’s 24 pct. Some 66 pct of Greeks
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Androulakis treads fine line in opposition as pool of available voters dries up
PoliticsGreek Politicshave been declaring large profits. PASOK made it clear that it disagreed with the government’s...’s meeting with Mitsotakis was not a sign that PASOK is be servile to New Democracy in the name..., SYRIZA’s new leader Sokratis Famellos played down PASOK’s proposal for extra taxation on banks
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Androulakis rules out future coalition with ND amid changed political landscape
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPASOK’s opponents that it is positioning itself for future cooperation with ND. They argue that the socialists, now the main opposition party in Parliament after SYRIZA’s loss of more MPs, are too soft... fuelled such criticism. The PASOK leader’s flat denial is clearly aimed at ending such speculation
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Negative sentiment dominates fragmented political landscape
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe latest polling figures probing the long-term trends since last summer’s European elections show... risen to 4.7 pct from 2.7 pct in July, reflecting the party’s increased prominence since winning its first seat in the European elections. Stefanos Kasselakis’s new party, Movement for Democracy, gets
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Mitsotakis puts party unity above consensus with president pick
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Parliament and New Democracy MP Kostas Tasoulas to be the country’s next President. Recent days had... had settled on Tasoulas because his long career in politics, his proven respect for the country’s..., that the turbulent global environment required the occupant of the president’s mansion to have deep
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Controversies around president pick cause government headaches
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOn the eve of the first round of voting for a new president, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s pick... term as Speaker of Parliament in anticipation of the vote. While Mitsotakis’s choice was condemned... couple of days, however, put the PM’s candidate under further scrutiny. On Wednesday, opposition PASOK
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Under pressure from public opinion, Mitsotakis concedes mistakes on Tempe
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn the aftermath of the weekend’s mass demonstrations, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has backtracked... cover-up, stating that he did not believe it to have been “Parliament’s finest hour”. The government... politically, suggesting that the state might review the operator’s license. More significantly from
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Opposition mulls censure motion as poll makes public discontent over Tempe clear
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the government is doing all that it can to shed light on the country’s deadliest rail disaster. Also... appears to have misjudged the public’s mood in relation to this issue. It seems that New Democracy has... and a lack of justice following the death of 57 people. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s hastily
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Political tension ramps up as Tempe anniversary approaches
PoliticsGreek Politicsto a social media post by the deceased’s mother, in which she expressed the belief that her son... Famellos’s questions as “vile and despicable rhetoric” aimed at “poisoning public opinion... on Tempe. The signal for a change in tack was given by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s interview in Sunday’s
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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 marking three years since Russia’s invasion. The Greek premier - who was invited only to the second
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