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Leaders gear up for debate as ND maintains opinion poll lead
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe journalists and the panellists, or the party leaders themselves. SYRIZA has been pressing for PM... better than the PM, who has a tendency to appear stiff in some exchanges. However, ND has... about SYRIZA returning to power and leading a coalition that would include a PASOK that has yet to find
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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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Fires cast growing shadow as new shipwreck probe is announced
PoliticsGreek Politicshouseholds with some relief from the cost-of-living crisis, using the extra fiscal space that has been.... Some commentators have made comparisons between the amounts the centre-right administration has... 15,000 hectares has been burned on Rhodes alone), has also prompted questions to be asked again
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Minister hangs on as failures leading to fatal hooligan raid further tarnish govt's image
PoliticsGreek Politicsevents. Citizens’ Protection Minister Yiannis Economou, who has only been in the position for a few... while Greece was battling numerous wildfires, has admitted that there was a huge failure on behalf of the police and security services, but he has not offered to step down. The government seems
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PM under pressure to account for destruction, as wildfires stoke anti-migrant sentiment
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the region of Evros has highlighted local tensions over migrant border crossings and raised questions.... Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has come under fire for remaining largely silent on the issue... it was tackling the fires. Impatience has been growing, however, for the prime minister to appear
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Government tries to mount defence against criticism about wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politics. However, the blaze in Evros, northeastern Greece, which has so far claimed 19 lives (another person... parliamentary group, Sokratis Famellos, argued that New Democracy has no excuses for the evident shortcomings... party president is elected in early September, accepted that the extreme weather has made the situation
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Newsletter 391 - 01/09/2023
failings in the upcoming elections. The government has already announced that it will increase spending... to fuel the anti-migrant sentiment that has been brewing in northeastern Greece, but which has also been evident in Greece’s mainstream political debate. In recent days, the spotlight has fallen
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PM prepares to set out policy agenda, SYRIZA gears up for leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsleader. Over the past few days, the government has dampened expectations about what Mitsotakis might... to vulnerable households, although the PM did explain in a Facebook post that although Greece has one... subsidies will remain for vulnerable households. The government has not ruled out another “inflation cheque
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Kasselakis completes stunning victory, taking SYRIZA into uncharted territory
PoliticsGreek Politics35-year-old entrepreneur, who has spent all his adult life in the USA and has talked openly about... or upset with his rivals for allegedly pushing out former leader Alexis Tsipras. There has been.... It is also worth noting that Tsipras has invited the new party leader to meet him at his
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Government tries to contain fallout from breach of voters' data
PoliticsGreek Politicsaddresses it has laid the potentially damaging issue to rest. However, opposition parties... continues to insist that she has not done anything wrong. The matter is being investigated by Greece’s... that she has no political responsibility for the leak. Kerameus was appointed interior minister following
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