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Parties gear up for vote on bill permitting private universities
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThis Friday’s vote in Parliament on the government’s university reform bill provides the main political showpiece of the week as it is the latest issue over which the government and the opposition disagree. The proposal to allow foreign universities to set up branches in Greece, thereby bypassing
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Podcast - SYRIZA embraces the chaos
AgoraFive years ago SYRIZA was in power in Greece, but it is currently languishing in third place in the opinion polls and the nascent leadership of Stefanos Kasselakis is being constantly buffeted by internal disputes. In this episode, Phoebe Fronista and Nick Malkoutzis set out how the left-wing party
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Mitsotakis hits back on multiple fronts as SYRIZA sets out its economic pledges
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere is no prospect of an Easter handout this year according to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who said the government would focus instead on increasing earnings. Mitsotakis set out his spending plans for the health system, while opposition leader Stefanos Kasselakis presented SYRIZA’s
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Great Expectations: Is Greece 2.0 hitting the target?
EconomyFeatureswith the rest of the EU to 5 percent as set out in the budget. A recent report by the Parliamentary
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MEPs agree to keep Tempe file open despite government's efforts to conclude inquiry
PoliticsGreek Politics. The Greek Parliament is set to adopt this week the findings of the MPs' inquiry into the crash. Just
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Where is Greek growth coming from?
Agoraconsumption. ELSTAT and the Bank of Greece could set up a research group to assess this possibility in more
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Investigations into voter email leak continue despite denials from government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParallel investigations into the security breach which enabled a government MEP to mass-email overseas voters in the run-up to the European Parliament elections are set to continue despite efforts by the prime minister’s office to contain the damage. The voter database leak is currently the subject
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Waning support in opinion polls generates concern for government
PoliticsGreek Politics, which will set the alarm bells ringing at the party’s headquarters since its target
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New political storm heads towards PM following report on Tempe recordings
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe conservatives. It is not clear at this stage what dynamic such a result could set off and whether it could
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Government prepares to hit back at opposition's censure motion over train crash
PoliticsGreek Politics. This would give him the advantage of being able to set the agenda for the debate in Parliament, which
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