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Government tries to polish economic image as it prepares for big gamble on relief measures
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreek politics is back from its summer break and attention is turning to the contents of the relief package that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is due to announce at the Thessaloniki International Fair on September 6. In the build-up to TIF, though, a number of other issues are causing friction
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Government’s effort to revive economic success story narrative heavily reliant on RRF execution
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis were in Thessaloniki on Thursday with the aim of talking up the government’s economic record, while also drumming up some positive publicity ahead of the New Democracy leader’s keynote policy speech at the city’s
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PM finalises relief measures in ambitious but risky move to sway voters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his advisers are putting the finishing touches to a package of relief measures that will start at around 1.5 billion euros and, they hope, eventually stretch to 2 billion euros. The interventions are due to be announced when Mitsotakis makes the keynote speech
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Agora. Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis identified India and China as alternative destinations
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PASOK seeks to carve out own space as Mitsotakis speech dominates agenda
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is hoping to follow the long build-up to this Saturday’s speech by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the Thessaloniki International Fair with a public relations blitz as it strives to turn around the decline in its popularity. This poses a challenge for the opposition parties
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Newsletter 474 - 05/09/2025
the middle: Tax relief, cost of living and jobsThis week has been dominated by the build-up to Prime
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PM defends stance on Turkey and troubled electricity cable project
PoliticsForeign PolicyPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is planning to meet with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York with the aim of maintaining the current stability in relations between the two countries, while reiterating that Ankara needs to abolish its casus belli clause for ties to improve. During
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Revival of Mitsotakis-Tsipras rivalry points to future developments on political scene
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn no small part due to some deft manoeuvring of his own, former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras emerged from this weekend’s events with the aura of being one of current Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s main political rivals even though the SYRIZA MP has not publicly indicated his intention to return
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Government defends tax-cut package against opposition criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicsfocussed, after the prime minister refused once again to consider cuts. Leftists SYRIZA accused
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Androulakis presents vision for fairer Greece in response to PM’s tax cuts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe battle to impress Greek voters continued this weekend as PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis took to the stage at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) to present his alternative policy plan a few days after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis unveiled his extensive tax cuts. Androulakis focussed
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