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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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PM trails more relief, insists on dominant role for ND in future govt
PoliticsGreek Politicsand responded with the message he has honed to the question which has arisen repeatedly over recent... in the next electoral contest, has given his views a heightened relevance, which the prime minister was keen... outside his own party as he has done in the past. “The prime minister must be the leader
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Handling of energy crisis under fire as gas interruption tests supply security
PoliticsGreek Politicsminister reiterated his argument that the energy crisis is a global phenomenon to which Greece has been.... The opposition counters that that inflation has exposed structural problems with the Greek markets which...-anticipated regulatory framework for electricity storage, the lack of which has been blamed
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Judges' Novartis decision revives political battle over bribery scandal
PoliticsGreek Politics, including the publisher of left-leaning Documento, Kostas Vaxavanis, who has been involved in a long-running... that SYRIZA has little to shout about since Papangelopoulos, hand-picked by former Prime Minister Alexis... an epidemiological study to boost sales. However, in Greece, nobody has so far been convicted
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High energy prices fuel uncertainty on fiscal front
EconomyMacroeconomyofficials in the coming months as uncertainty over supplies during the winter has been priced... this week. It intends to cap retail bills. An amount of 850 million euros has been budgeted until the end... it would be wiser to seek a new mandate before this dissatisfaction has a chance to grow. In response
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Newsletter 345 - 08/07/2022
in the prime minister’s reasoning has led to further speculation about his true intent. Many commentators... when it rubs uncomfortably against his party’s political instincts. The government still has... vote under an enhanced PR system. PM Mitsotakis has indicated that the first ballot will not yield
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