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Firefighting capabilities beefed up as blazes and water shortages weigh on government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday that Greece’s defences against wildfires have been the strongest they have ever been but the realities of the climate crisis, whether in the form of summer blazes or water shortages, are becoming ever-more urgent issues for his government to address
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Corruption claims, foreign policy missteps impede government’s efforts to build momentum
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece is preparing for the first major heatwave of the summer to hit the country this week, but it is the political heat that his government is facing because of the OPEKEPE scandal and its handling of foreign policy issues that is causing Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis most concern
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New Democracy seeks to counter with marine parks and migration policy, rhetoric
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government is attempting to turn the table on its critics and go on the offensive on a range of issues after spending the last couple of weeks defending itself over the farming subsidy scandal. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis took the local media by surprise on Monday when he announced
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PM pledges water reform in bid to avert scarcity crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsstrategy. It is a shift many consider long overdue. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis unveiled
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Parliamentary chicanery raises doubt about PM’s grip on party as he looks ahead to relief package
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe majority of the 83 votes cast. The decision by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to first
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OPEKEPE scandal dogs PM as speculation about next elections intensifies
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe criticism and controversy being generated by the OPEKEPE scandal refuses to die down despite Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s latest attempt to justify his government’s actions and to move on from this issue. Against this backdrop, chatter about the next elections, including their timing
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Opposition lines up attack on government over wildfires with visits to affected areas
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSokratis Famellos has already attacked the government for its approach to wildfires, accusing the prime
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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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