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Covid restrictions to be relaxed but public fixated on cost-of-living crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicssuggests the pandemic has slipped down the list of voters’ priorities and that, ahead of elections... point. However, the pandemic has been downgraded in the public consciousness even though close to 350... on Wednesday, taking the total since the pandemic began to 28,344. Instead, voters’ attention has
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Newsletter 335 - 15/04/2022
Commission, which oversees the debt sustainability analysis (DSA), has in each review reiterated... in August last year. The rise in borrowing costs has put on hold the execution of Greece’s debt strategy... of living is by far the biggest issue on voters’ minds. New Democracy has put together a bill that aims
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Effort to keep Greek-Turkish ties on even keel put under stress
PoliticsForeign PolicyMinister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has come under strain over... in discussions with Greece, it has not abandoned its claims in the Aegean. However, Ankara does not believe... these kind of weapons because it has concerns about weakening its own defences. But the Greek side
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Economic sentiment drops sharply in Apr, consumer confidence hits lowest since 2017
EconomyMacroeconomysentiment has been on the mend for a while, having recovered all the deterioration suffered during..., but sentiment has been sliding since then. Over the rolling 12-month period, the ESI is now even lower than... by 1.7 points month-on-month. The recovery in Greece’s consumer confidence has halted. The index
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Much riding on EU approval of plan to cap energy prices
PoliticsGreek Politicsto present Athens’s proposal to DG Energy on Wednesday. In total, the government has budgeted 4.3 billion... platform for attacking the government, especially as the cost of living has become the top concern... has sought to place itself prominently and clearly in the pro-Ukraine camp, are guilty
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SYRIZA hope Tsipras re-election ballot will bear fruit as poll figures remain stagnant
PoliticsGreek Politicsby PASOK officials and neutral observers. This has piled the pressure on SYRIZA, which has a lower... members at the last elections, in 2019, but has managed to increase that number to almost 62,000 since... of voting preferences, support for New Democracy has edged up slightly since March, rising by half
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Media freedom concerns continue to bedevil Mitsotakis govt as EC takes note
PoliticsGreek Politicsof disinformation campaigns by unaccountable NGOs. Their response has failed to clear the air regarding significant... of spyware on the same journalist’s phone. The government has once again denied that it engages... to EU funding, which has already been invoked to block Hungary from receiving RRF funds. Perhaps
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Newsletter 339 - 27/05/2022
of 0.5 points taking it to 20.3 pct. In third place, PASOK-KINAL has dropped 2.6 points since April... of the support it has lost over the last few months as the cost-of-living crisis has gripped Greek households... over day-to-day issues such as energy costs rather than foreign policy. ND has a distinct advantage
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Where is Odysseus? Part 3 - Participation
Agorasmaller in size. We see, furthermore that in the recent past, the participation rate (PR) has... in Greece. This phenomenon has also been observed in other countries. The PR is now recovering. The next... is around 5 percentage points higher than in Greece. This is quite a large difference, and it has been
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Remaining fiscal space could be squeezed for more cost-of-living measures as tension grows
PoliticsGreek Politicsadministration might use what limited fiscal space remains. The government has already announced... in Brussels, Greece has already allocated over the last 10 months 6.7 billion euros, or 3.7 pct of its GDP.... This belief has been strengthened by the series of trips that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who
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