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Opposition hoping surveillance, cronyism scandals will bite ND
PoliticsGreek Politics. The government has so far largely warded off most of the fallout from the phonetapping issue, although...) and the widespread use of Predator spyware has eroded some of the public’s support for ND. There is still hope within... on Tuesday that the Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) has decided to ask
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Kasselakis takes up leadership challenge as SYRIZA struggles to retain credibility
PoliticsGreek PoliticsJust five months after electing a new leader, SYRIZA’s regression in the opinion polls has now been... appears to feel that he has a carte blanche to change the party as he sees fit over the coming years... that he has no intention of being a strawman or anybody’s puppet, intimating that some in the party
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PM's latest reshuffle off to bumpy start with first day resignation
PoliticsGreek Politicsto invest time arguing with his critics. Doxiadis, a venture capitalist who has taken on the role... this is a conscious choice by the PM to bolster his relationship with a section of ND that has always treated him..., resulting in his ousting from the party last year, has also burdened the PM’s ties with the right wing
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Banking on voters’ desire for stability, ND insists ruling majority is still achievable
PoliticsGreek Politicsand that it is not merely a partisan aspiration but a national necessity. Mitsotakis has sharpened..., which has shown signs of fatigue after nearly seven years of centre‑right rule. Current surveys place.... That memory has become a touchstone inside the PM’s office, where officials argue that undecided centre
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Tsipras is at his strongest, but for how long?
Agorapersuasiveness and what role his personal popularity has played in convincing Greek voters to stick... receptive to Tsipras’s message. Tsipras also has the advantage of teaming up again with Independent Greeks... Popular Unity or some pro-drachma force in Greek politics. It’s also the case that Tsipras has proved
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Mitsotakis eyes majority in second vote as SYRIZA reels from crushing defeat
PoliticsGreek Politicselection, to be sworn in and then dissolved so second elections can take place. It has been... for Greek elections, although the turnout has been falling over the last couple of decades. The other... lead to Mitsotakis ending up with a slimmer advantage than he currently has. SYRIZA headaches However
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Newsletter 74 - 20/05/2016
. In addition, the new privatisation fund, whose title has been officially translated as the Hellenic Company... funding. The vote on Sunday represents the final hurdle that the prime minister has to clear...-off fund in which Greece’s lenders have a considerable say and which has access to a vast array
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Newsletter 193 -08/02/2018
to those who lodged legal complaints. The court will also have to decide if its decision has retroactive.... The Finance Ministry has argued that much of this is subject to legal disputes and it is likely... been cleared. Perhaps, the key issue that has to be addressed is the framework that will replace
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Newsletter 84 - 29/07/2016
, while positive flow of households stood at 368 million. Nevertheless, the deposit balance has remained... of the second review Now that the debate over Greece’s electoral system has been settled (for the time being), the government has shifted focus to reforming the country’s constitution and trying to ease
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Newsletter 118 - 12/05/2017
reading since 2001 for April, a month that has had a positive employment balance for the past 17 years... up the legislative process. The Greek justice system, including the Court of Audit, has ruled cuts... and economic necessity has led to the judgements being ignored. The Council of Audit’s decision
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