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PM makes limited, cautious changes to cabinet after election disappointment
PoliticsGreek Politicsat ministerial level in five departments: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural... as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras, once a justice minister under Mitsotakis, becomes the new agriculture minister. Niki Kerameus is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry
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Newsletter 428 - 21/06/2024
: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural Development. The new head of the Development Ministry is Takis Theodorikakos, who has previously served as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras... is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry, where she is replacing one of the few
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Final budget sees strong growth, fiscal overperformance in 2018
EconomyMacroeconomy. Athens now sees 2017 growth settling at 1.6 percent, well below the initial estimate. The Finance...). In fact, private consumption only grew by half the original estimate, 0.9 percent. Investment also reached just over half the estimate, increasing by 5.1 percent. The growth of exports did
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New president receives strong endorsement, hints at areas of interest
PoliticsGreek Politicschoice, but also justifying SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras’s decision to support her candidacy. Sakellaropoulou, who will leave the Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court, to take up her... her 261 out of 300 votes. The other three parties, the Communist Party, Greek Solution and MeRA25
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Konstantopoulou dominates opposition politics as PASOK and SYRIZA struggle to make mark
PoliticsGreek Politicsseen her personal popularity rise significantly. Konstantopoulou represents some of the families of the Tempe victims in her capacity as a lawyer and this has given her an advantage over her rivals..., it is doubtful whether her party can maintain the momentum it has built up over the last few weeks
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Mitsotakis heads to party congress amid internal unrest as Karystianou sets date
PoliticsGreek Politicsportfolio within the ruling centre-right party. In her resignation statement, she spoke of a “political... on Thursday that she will officially launch her new party on May 21 at the Olympion cinema in Thessaloniki. Her announcement video - an AI‑generated clip of her releasing a dove carrying an olive
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Q3 GDP beats consensus, rises by 0.5 pct QoQ and 1.5 pct YoY
EconomyMacroeconomyfor 2016. The MoF, Bank of Greece (BoG) and the EC estimate a mild GDP contraction of 0.3 percent, while OECD’s estimate stands a bit lower at 0.2 percent. In contrast, IMF sees a marginal GDP expansion of 0.1 percent. For the full year MoF and EC estimate of a GDP contraction of 0.3 percent to be met
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No further damage for Tsipras in second vote as SYRIZA stand-off continues
PoliticsGreek Politicsout on her own long before she voted against last week’s bill, suggested this was an abuse... but also pointed out to the house speaker that her note expressed her personal views and not those... on her role, which is meant to be institutional rather than political, the parliamentary speaker
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Newsletter 461 - 09/05/2025
Konstantopoulou and her populist party more seriously. Just 4 pct of respondents in February thought.... This underlines that Konstantopoulou and her party have managed to grab the spotlight, taking... at the head of the pack and her apparent appeal to voters (GPO measures her popularity at 39.9 pct
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IMF expects modest recovery, lingering debt but primary surplus to return swiftly
EconomyMacroeconomyto 3.6 pct in the last quarter of next year. This year’s estimate is marginally lower than the one... estimate for a 8.2 pct GDP contraction last year. Greece is seen coming off deflation this year..., after -7.4 pct last year and a recovery from next year up to 2026 at -3.5 pct. This year’s estimate
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