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Main parties facing challenges as new political season begins
PoliticsGreek PoliticsNormal parliamentary activity is due to resume this Wednesday after the summer recess, with New Democracy focussed on addressing a range of concerns that have arisen or intensified over the summer, SYRIZA facing more internal turmoil and PASOK gearing u...
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Energy a main factor in decline of April import prices by 6.3 pct YoY
EconomyMacroeconomyGreece’s import price index continued its contraction in April, with a sharp drop of 6.3 percent year-on-year (YoY), after a 2.5 percent drop in the previous month, according to data released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) on Friday. The...
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Podcast - Main character energy: Greece vies for leading fossil fuel role
AgoraGreece is trying to secure a central role in the global energy game. In this episode of *The Agora*, we explore how a flurry of recent deals is positioning the country as a key player in the transatlantic energy landscape. From the launch of the Vertica...
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ND mulls next tax cuts as it prepares to unveil new electoral law
PoliticsGreek Politicsa meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos... representation system that will award a bonus to the winning party. Unlike the existing system, which... to use a sliding scale so the bonus is linked to the winning party’s performance. “We can’t have
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Newsletter 113 - 31/03/2017
Skourletis, now head of the Interior Ministry, warned in an op-ed on Monday against the “cannibalisation... consenting to the proposed debt restructuring. Three binding offers were submitted for the acquisition... investment groups that have tabled binding bids. One the biggest stumbling blocks to have emerged
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Fallout from Ukraine war being fed into calculations about next general elections
PoliticsGreek PoliticsInterior Minister Stelios Petsas said that he does not expect elections, which are scheduled to take place... law with the aim of reducing the level of support needed for the winning party to claim.... The report suggested that the PM’s office has drawn up a scheme that would give the winning party
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PASOK launches attempt to form alliance that would rival SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicslast week. Ex-Interior Minister Yiannis Ragousis attended the meeting, taking a different approach... at the next elections by winning back centre-left voters from SYRIZA and crushing the radical leftist... the kind of backing he would like from sections of PASOK in order to have a chance of winning the race
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Parties mull changes to electoral law, top judge resigns
PoliticsGreek Politicsto Interior Minister Panos Skourletis the breaking up of the Athens “B” electoral district, a reduction of the bonus for the winning party from 50 to less than 40 seats in Parliament, allowing Greeks... representation system. This means the winning party will get no bonus at all. PASOK and To Potami did not vote
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ND's electoral bill put before MPs as PM mulls options for president
PoliticsGreek Politicsterm for Pavlopoulos but the likelihood of the ex-interior minister being given another five years has... party earning up to 50 extra MPs. According to the proposal, if the winning party passes the 25... in May 2012 did the winning party win less than 25 percent of the vote, when New Democracy gained
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New political clash over police violence, but ND seems unperturbed
PoliticsGreek PoliticsInterior Minister Makis Voridis, alleged that the man in question was known to the police, had... that Mitsotakis is far from the centrist liberal he portrays himself as. Winning strategy? It is possible that Mitsotakis sees this as a winning strategy and that SYRIZA’s tendency to pen itself
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