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Bank tax proposal spearheads PASOK attack on government's economic policy
EconomyPASOK’s new strategy of focusing on areas where the government has, in the public’s view, performed... an amendment during the debate on the Labour Ministry’s bill about the new minimum wage mechanism. PASOK... is tightly linked with Greece’s poor showing in all EU related wage data in terms of purchasing power
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PM weighs up options over pick for president ahead of January decision
PoliticsGreek Politicsand is aiming to meet with his ministerial team again in the second week of January, when the media’s... iteration of the procedure to elect Greece’s president will lack the dramatic tension of previous... of capturing the public’s imagination and generating consensus. While such a move could help boost
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Government pledges more reforms, but economy set to prove deciding factor in 2025
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Parapolitika weekly over the weekend, State Minister Akis Skertsos set out the government’s key aims... that will be tabled in Parliament and 244 public works contracts that need to be signed. However, the local media’s... this year. Monday’s Naftemporiki argues that the big challenge for the Greek authorities over 2025
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All eyes on PM's choice for next president at start of New Year
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s return from his Christmas holidays also marks the ramping up... their popularity. In this context, Mitsotakis’s choice will be seen as a sign of whether he is more... marriage legislation, which almost a third of New Democracy’s parliamentary group did not support
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Greece looks to cultivate ties with Egypt and Israel while keeping eye on Turkey's role in Syria
PoliticsForeign Policyand Egypt and takes place at a critical moment for developments in the Middle East. Turkey’s active engagement with Syria’s new political leadership has caused concern in all three countries. Ankara... and analysts claim an agreement with Syria could bolster Ankara’s territorial claims in the Eastern
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New Democracy aiming to regain lost ground and keep rivals contained in 2025
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe PM’s office is honing its strategy for the coming year, hoping that 2025 will be the year New... that they hope will cement their hold on power over the longer term. In his New Year’s message, PM... on social policy and inclusiveness. The PM’s latest pledges include increasing incomes through tax
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Mitsotakis aiming to overcome voter disappointment and rebuild decisive lead in 2025
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFollowing the last public holiday of the festive season on Monday, the government’s focus... to the economy. Government officials have been talking up New Democracy’s intention to regain some... for 2025. A central part of ND’s strategy this year will be to re-establish itself in voters’ minds
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Debt position a bulwark against global turbulence
EconomyMacroeconomyuncertainty that we have been arguing that Greece’s debt position is not an immediate concern thanks... published just before Christmas. Greece’s debt managers presented a modest debt strategy for this year... the yield curve and their small size poses limited risks. Greece’s total funding needs for the year
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ND hits back at Tempe accusations as opposition seeks to keep up pressure
PoliticsGreek Politicsthey have felt cornered by events and the opposition’s actions. “We have an opposition that is not up... at Monday’s media briefing. He argued that the government had been vindicated over claims made last year... responded to reports that forensic work carried out by Belgium’s Ghent University on behalf
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Conclusion of presidential vote hands Mitsotakis victory amid ongoing controversies
PoliticsGreek Politicsabstained from the fourth round of voting in protest at MP Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s choice of the former... in the parliamentary cover-up of Tempe, the surveillance affair and the Pylos shipwreck” and said the party’s 11... Kasselakis’s party Movement for Democracy. Course for Freedom, led by former SYRIZA MP Zoe Konstantopoulou
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