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Newsletter 402 - 17/11/2023
time SYRIZA has not been the leading or second party in Greek politics for 11 years. In terms... of the initiatives that the SYRIZA leader has announced aimed at opening up the party to new ideas and people...” remains to be seen. Achtsioglou, a former labour minister, has so far adopted a careful balance between
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Greece - Some structural macroeconomic arithmetic
Agorathat the outlook is made. For instance, when an economy has suffered an adverse shock and has had weak... be generous as well, and monetary policy can be relatively loose. The economy then has the capacity... that average labor productivity growth has been slowing down over the decades to below 1 percent
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Mitsotakis hopes tax bill tweaks will calm reactions in push to jump-start stalled reform agenda
PoliticsGreek Politicsunavoidable. The Finance Ministry has offered to make concessions on its original proposal to levy..., he has, meanwhile, rebuffed requests for meetings with sector representatives to discuss further... same-sex marriage, which has been causing upheaval in the ranks of New Democracy. After several
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Budget debate begins as poll highlights opposition's weakness
PoliticsGreek Politicsas they are struggling to cope with the cost-of-living crisis. Nevertheless, opinion poll after opinion poll has... gaining just 2.5 pct, although it has been just over a week since they launched and they remain only..., feeling that Kyriakos Mitsotakis should face a more robust opposition. It has been remarked
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Mitsotakis makes bid to dissuade farmers from continuing their protests
PoliticsGreek Politicssector, which has been blighted by natural disasters as well as the high cost of supplies and energy.... The government is cautious about the outcome of the talks because it knows that it has little fiscal space... predecessors, Antonis Samaras has also asked to speak. The conservative MP has already made his
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Government braces for farmers' protest, SYRIZA officials put out by leader's approach
PoliticsGreek Politics, such as Brussels and Rome. The government’s position continues to be that it has exhausted all fiscal space... to how the government often responds to protests. For instance, it has been critical of recent... constituency. The police has been trying to coordinate with the farmers over Tuesday’s protests to ensure
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Fresh SYRIZA leadership battle called off as chaotic party conference concludes
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat they represent a sound political choice. Rarely has a party conference been witness... PASOK, which has 32. PASOK has already overtaken SYRIZA in the opinion polls, leaving the leftists... he has had to dedicate to responding to critics within SYRIZA. He insisted that his renewal
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Backwash from stormy congress still rocking SYRIZA as support for Greek Solution rises
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKasselakis, who has been trying to put behind him the fractious nature of the conference and show that he has the full backing of the party to proceed with the changes he trailed during his speeches last week. No opinion poll published this week has shown any uptick in support for SYRIZA in wake
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Resignations of two key aides undermines PM's attempt to rebuff crash cover-up claims
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlthough the government, which has a significant parliamentary majority, was not troubled by last... in office has been beset by problems. After three days of intense debating in Parliament all 158 New... Democracy has enjoyed in the Greek media since coming to power and the fact that two of Mitsotakis’s
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PM attempts to regroup, shift focus after testing week over Tempe crash
PoliticsGreek Politicswill prove as long as doubts remain about whether the Mitsotakis administration has been covering... of the no-confidence vote which the government sailed through. It remains to be seen if the public has been convinced, but what is certain is that the opposition senses it has ND on the ropes over this issue
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