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Leaders explain differing views on how to approach Ukraine war
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat SYRIZA had served in government with the Russia-friendly Independent Greeks (ANEL) and their leader Panos... awards bonus seats to the winning party on a sliding scale that is linked to its share of the vote. Under
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Newsletter 351 - 16/09/2022
the SYRIZA-ANEL coalition that came to power in 2015 The conservatives will bank on enough voters being..., based on the electoral law approved by ND in 2020. Under this system, the winning party would need
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Inquiry into surveillance scandal begins as ND feeds speculation about change to election law
PoliticsGreek Politicsto either change the electoral law or call snap elections, or even both. Speaking on Tuesday, SYRIZA... and call snap elections before it has to table next year’s budget, which is usually adopted by Parliament... Development Fund (HRADF), Stergios Pitsiorlas, in which he expressed his disappointment at finding out that he
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How Greek banks moved into a new era
Agora. The highest quarterly NPL increase was posted by Eurobank, which saw a rise of 1.5 percentage... increase, Piraeus shares saw a modest increase of 6 percent, while Eurobank and National shares have... was estimated at 5.8 billion under the binding baseline scenario and at 8.8 billion under
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Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016
, Mitsotakis saw off the competition from his rival Evangelos Meimarakis (52.4 vs 47.6 percent) to win Sunday’s.... Elected just over a year ago, the leftist party saw itself in the vanguard of the backlash against... turned to winning the September elections. Thoughts of how his government would implement the deal
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Tracing the decline of the middle class as parties vie for its votes
EconomyFeatures, with the exception of the lowest earners who saw their tax increase threefold between 2012-2014 (though from.... Households earning 12,000-16,000 euros saw their tax increased by 21 percent in 2012-2014 and 26 percent..., Tsakalotos’s alternate minister Giorgos Houliarakis, gifted the opposition a winning card when he told
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Banks tout ambitious NPE plans to return to European mainstream
EconomyBankingsaw their 2020 results propped by bond swaps with the Greek state. That saw them book trading gains...Greece’s banks have started what was set to be a difficult year for them by winning plaudits for their progress towards meeting tough goals for reducing the stock of non-performing exposures. Last
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Newsletter 386 - 23/06/2023
apartments - over five years old - saw their prices increase by 15.6 pct YoY. New properties saw price... suggest that up to nine parties have a chance of winning seats, although no more than seven have a strong
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Newsletter 6 - 5/12/2014
as he would like, is to go directly to the people, to call snap elections before the presidential... precipitated the decision of then Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis to call snap elections in October 2009... Papandreou in 2009. After winning the European Parliament elections (36.6 percent for PASOK vs 32.3
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Internal and external difficulties with measures expose coalition's weaknesses
PoliticsGreek Politicssigns of tension between the coalition partners emerged last week. Independent Greeks (ANEL) refused... through Parliament. Also, ANEL leader and Defence Minister publicly criticised Education Minister..., particularly as the upcoming leadership election in New Democracy may leave the ANEL president
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