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Polls boost for KINAL after leadership vote, as Androulakis rolls out key appointments
PoliticsGreek Politicsof respondents to this poll, placing him second behind Mitsotakis’s 50 pct, while Tsipras comes... in the country’s hospitals earlier this year to high patient loads. The report appears to directly... the government has not yet offered an explanation for the prime minister’s statement. KINAL Having
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New Omicron measures met with exasperation by business and scepticism from opposition
PoliticsGreek Politicsannounced a second wave of restrictions, which he said followed the recommendations of the government’s... suggest that it is fast becoming dominant in Athens, as well as Greece’s second largest city... particular concern due to the already congested state of the city’s hospitals which are still dealing
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Covid dominates start of 2022 but PM looks ahead to growth
PoliticsGreek Politicscriticism about New Democracy’s handling of the pandemic, the arrival of the Omicron variant in Greece has.... There was an explosion in cases between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, surpassing 40,000 on Dec 31 in a new... to the police force, army or even catering sector. In his New Year’s address, Prime Minister Kyriakos
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ND and SYRIZA exchange broadsides, KINAL catches some flak
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government breezed through Sunday’s no confidence vote, as expected, following a three-day...’s extreme weather, but avoided getting into any details about what they believe went wrong or how... to highlight the government’s shortcomings on other issues, such as inflation and the pandemic
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Govt mulls Easter bonus as cost-of-living crisis causes public concern
PoliticsGreek Politicsdivergent challenges for Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s government, which is finding it increasingly difficult... will need an overperformance of more than 300 million euros on February’s tax revenues to fund...-of-living worries have significantly overtaken the pandemic as the public’s chief concern. The latest
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Faced with limited policy options, govt mulls inflation handout
PoliticsGreek Politicsaround the country. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his colleagues counter the opposition’s... from. A report in Sunday’s To Vima suggested that the European Commission rejected proposals from... to carefully cultivate an image of efficiency and transparency. Tsipras’s headache was caused
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One unicorn does not a Silicon Valley make: positive news on startup front also highlights limitations
EconomyFeaturesRecord investments in Greek startups and a number of headline-grabbing exits – including Greece’s..., and of audio software producers Accusonus by Facebook’s parent company Meta. The former deal produced a valuation of 2 billion USD for Viva Wallet, making it Greece’s first official “unicorn” – a company
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Parties pick from energy policy menu as EU response opens up more options
PoliticsGreek Politicsto Wednesday’s cabinet meeting that more measures will be announced within the next 10 days. The publication of the European Commission’s policy toolkit on Tuesday expanded the menu of potential... by the Commission, such as caps on retail energy prices. The government’s view is that it is already
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SYRIZA challenges govt over Covid deaths again as pandemic numbers rise
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment’s latest attempt at combatting the cost-of-living crisis, but SYRIZA is trying to push... and centre-left KINAL means that there is little room for error on the government’s part. The growing..., to a large extent, the pandemic. Until late last year, Greece’s poor performance in terms of containing
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PM yields on energy windfall tax as govt feels strain
PoliticsGreek Politicsbased on RAE’s findings, said the premier. Mitsotakis was cautious about SYRIZA’s calculations... over the last few months, this figure currently looks to be out of New Democracy’s reach. Opinion poll A Metron Analysis opinion poll for Mega TV will have added to the government’s concern about how
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