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PM burnishes conservative credentials with focus on day-to-day issues, law and order
PoliticsGreek Politicshas taken since being handed a renewed mandate in the June 2023 national elections, including wage... countries. Allowing police to enter university campuses has been one of the issues that ND has... introduced changes to the law to make this easier it has been very selective in enforcing it. A link
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PM defends scepticism about name deal as he waits for official position from Skopje
PoliticsForeign Policycoming to power it has respected the agreement even though it has not yet ratified in Parliament... to be ratified. Opposition party SYRIZA has said that it will bring a proposal for these protocols to be voted on in Parliament. Mitsotakis explained that his approach has been vindicated by the stance
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Parties strive to meet vote targets as interest in European elections wanes
PoliticsGreek Politicsof dissatisfaction, apathy and indecision. Interest in the upcoming EP elections has waned as campaigning... who say they are very interested in the outcome has fallen to 57 pct from 58 pct in April while..., at a rate of around 70 pct, with small losses on the right to Greek Solution and Niki. SYRIZA has
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Newsletter 427 - 14/06/2024
in the European Parliament elections has triggered a series of developments in Greek politics, which... earlier opinion polls has bought the new SYRIZA leader some time. However, he faces an uneasy three... party that he has during the recent rally in the opinion polls. Social democrats PASOK also failed
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Dissent grows within SYRIZA as polls indicated appetite for joined-up centre left
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor comfort, while presenting ruling New Democracy with a fragmented opposition. The outcome has kicked off... percent followed by Doukas with 17.2 percent. No contest has yet been declared and no challenger has formally put themselves forward, however Androulakis has indicated he will go along
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Impact of EP elections continues to reverberate across main parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsis expected to use the meeting to initiate a reset in line with what he has outlined as the party’s core... that ND under Mitsotakis has drifted too far to the centre with the appointment of centre-left politicians.... SYRIZA upheaval At SYRIZA, leader Stefanos Kasselakis has responded to his internal critics by going
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Six-day work week triggers opposition attack on labour reforms
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe introduction of the six-day work week has prompted the opposition in Greece to launch an attack... also note that the new regime will entrench the culture of long hours and low productivity that has.... In recent months, the government has introduced a series of measures under pressure from sectors
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ND throws weight behind pursuit of whistleblowers, prompting SYRIZA backlash
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitical figures. Political clash There has been a set pattern to the political element of the Novartis affair: SYRIZA has been intent on implicating former New Democracy and PASOK ministers in the affair, while ND has wanted to prove that its left-wing opponents organised a conspiracy aimed
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Government faces backlash over emergency energy package
PoliticsGreek Politics” for being unable to afford even a short holiday. While the rising cost of living has been named as the top concern for Greek voters for some time, this has not posed a serious challenge to New Democracy’s dominance for as long as the opposition has remained divided and mired in introspection. While
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Opposition striving to ensure surveillance scandal remains live issue
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government, which has accused the opposition parties of not respecting the judiciary’s independence... to the ruling on the spyware scandal, the opposition has also zoomed in on Health Minister Adonis... not take any legal action against those who sought to bug him. Georgiadis has brushed off the issue
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