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Machinations intensify as announcement of election date approaches
PoliticsGreek Politicssending a message to voters that he considers the matter nothing more than a case of individuals...’s performance in the vote, rather than its political intentions, Androulakis hopes to fend off
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Train tragedy prompts urgent questions about railway safety
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat a railway workers’ union (DESK) had issued a statement less than a month ago warning... in 2018, which claimed more than 100 lives, even though serious operational failings in the emergency
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ND prepares for opinion poll hit after crash protests, shaky communications
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy of focussing more on salvaging the government’s image than on addressing the realities... and employment benefits. The PM’s office is hoping that with elections no more than a couple of months
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Unemployment edges up to 11.9 pct in Q4
EconomyMacroeconomy. The number of long-term unemployed (more than 1 year) came to 355,700 people, representing 63.7 percent of the total unemployed. Alarmingly, the largest portion, 143,300, has not worked for more than four
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Budget primary balance beats target by 2.39 bln in Feb as taxes outperform
EconomyMacroeconomy. The overall balance is better than the target by 2.26 billion euros. Revenues Net revenues... came to 784 million euros, 104 million more than the target. Expenditure In February, overall
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Newsletter 374 - 17/03/2023
higher than the 2.9-point decline seen in a Marc poll a few days earlier. According to GPO, ND... a complete outlier with much more generous support packages. The Commission notes that more than 70 pct
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New Democracy pins hopes on minimum wage hike to reverse poll losses
PoliticsGreek Politicsin order to make it effective by April rather than June. New Democracy denied accusations... system, while in the Metron Analysis poll the two leading parties together amount to less than 50
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Newsletter 375 - 24/03/2023
a decline of more than 3 points, followed by SYRIZA on 26.1 pct and PASOK on 9.2 pct, both of which... a yield of less than 1 pct, at 0.87 pct. The offers had exceeded 29 billion euros. With some
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Mitsotakis sets May 21 election date, eyes opposition MPs as potential allies
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the conservative leader would prefer to peel away a few MPs from the opposition parties rather than strike... have a flimsier majority than if ND were to form a coalition with PASOK or another party. Mitsotakis’s
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Mitsotakis revives spectre of political instability as polls show ND lead diminished
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWith elections due on May 21 and the gap between the two main parties narrower than at any time in New Democracy’s four-year term, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has set in motion the campaign... slot, would like no less than 30 pct and ideally closer to the 32 pct it managed in the 2019 elections
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