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ND lead unabated in face of last-minute disputes over migrant boat sinking, minority votes
PoliticsGreek Politicspct. The projected result gives Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s conservatives a strong majority in Parliament.... Yanis Varoufakis’s MeRA25 falls just below the threshold, as do Spartiates, the party recently joined... website News247 among others have produced evidence which appears to contradict the coastguard’s
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Attention turns to next government as Mitsotakis holds convincing lead over rivals
PoliticsGreek Politics. State Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis, who is one of Mitsotakis’s closest aides, is expected to get... Georgiadis. The competencies of Georgiadis’s former department, the Development Ministry, may change..., possibly as a state minister, to serve as a key cog in the Prime Minister’s Office, alongside current chief
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Opposition parties jostle for position in post-election political landscape
PoliticsGreek PoliticsWith a New Democracy win all but assured in Sunday’s elections, the main forces of the opposition are staking out their positions with an eye on the day after on Greece’s political scene. Opinion... on to the momentum gained in May’s elections, when they won the vote but failed to secure
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MPs return to work, Mitsotakis seeks to bolster hold on centre
PoliticsGreek Politicsleader to replace outgoing Alexis Tsipras. The three-day debate over the government’s policies... the political centre in Greece and thereby attracting the votes that made this summer’s contests a walkover... space. Of course, this approach will continue to be married – as it was in ND’s first four-year term
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Government fleshes out priorities, SYRIZA sets dates for leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsto Alexis Tsipras’s successor being elected in the coming weeks. In an op-ed in Kathimerini, State Minister Akis Skertsos set out the government’s reform objectives for the coming four years, providing... was mentioned first in Skertsos’s list, is that of tax evasion. The subject briefly became a topic
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Mitsotakis faces down critics over handling of forest fires
PoliticsGreek Politicsof Rhodes. Parliament returned on Monday to debate the first legislation after New Democracy’s... account of the weekend’s operations. The prime minister said the country was “at war... critical of the response. The head of SYRIZA’s parliamentary party, Sokratis Famellos accused New
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Opposition intensifies calls for political scalp over failure to avert deadly hooligan clash
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the police’s failure to act on warnings of a planned attack by Croatian hooligans, which resulted... consequences. The PM’s office is holding off from reacting until the completion of the internal police... that this will be followed by a review of police operations and training. However, Mitsotakis’s continuing backing
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Growing challenges await PM following summer break
PoliticsGreek Politicsitself in a less accommodating position than it would have expected. The fallout from this summer’s... will have to be balanced, though, against the government’s commitment to produce a 1 pct of GDP... significant progress in improving efficiency in the civil service and among the country’s uniformed
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Government tries to mount defence against criticism about wildfires
PoliticsGreek Politicsover its handling of the situation during this summer. Modi’s visit is the first by an Indian leader... to highlight what they see as the government’s failings in preparing for the fire season and the inadequacies in dealing with the wildfires once they broke out. Visiting Evros, the head of SYRIZA’s
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PM prepares to set out policy agenda, SYRIZA gears up for leadership vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the government’s ability to bring in extra revenues from tax evasion. Away from fiscal issues, the PM is expected to set out his structural reform agenda for New Democracy’s second four-year term... of candidates has drawn more attention to SYRIZA’s leadership vote, which may end up benefitting the party
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