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Early summer fire highlights precariousness of snap election option
PoliticsGreek Politicsto respond to the outbreak, even though it was on the fringes of the capital. New Democracy has made... and that the creation of the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry has improved the state’s... announcements… there is the same deficiency, the lack of coordination of a state mechanism that has been
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Athens prods EU to resume enlargement process for Western Balkans
PoliticsForeign Policy), Greece has been underlining the urgent need to get the European enlargement back on track..., the European Council president, and President Emmanuel Macron of France, who has spoken of a wider... out a vision, it has the intent and the capacity to follow through. I look forward to making
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Govt lines up new handouts to fight inflation as SYRIZA moves to election footing
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor an electricity subsidy of up to 600 euros. New Democracy has already announced that it will launch... this autumn. The left-wing party believes that Mitsotakis has decided that if he waits until the end.... Of course, the opposition party has treated the worsening inflation situation as a pressure point
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Subsidies fuel pre-election mood as SYRIZA starts preparing
PoliticsGreek Politicsof measures that his administration has adopted to tackle the cost-of-living crisis... constituency that helped bring the centre-right to power in 2019. The Finance Ministry has set aside..., of the current situation that has led many observers to believe that the PM will prefer to go
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Ukraine war and Turkey tension top foreign policy concerns
PoliticsForeign Policysecurity, which most probably will be the case. It seems that the war in Ukraine has created new balances and Turkey has emerged as “strategic partner” for the Western alliance, even though everyone... Erdogan a “dictator” recently, visited Ankara on Tuesday. This new reality has not gone unnoticed
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Mitsotakis insists on no early elections, accusing opposition of sowing division
PoliticsGreek Politicstake the risk of stability, and if it has a political cost, so be it”. Mitsotakis also restated his... minister’s reasoning has led to further speculation about his true intent. Many commentators view... it rubs uncomfortably against his party’s political instincts. The government still has a strong
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Digital initiatives challenged by opposition focussed on cost of living and political hires
PoliticsGreek Politicsprogramme of digitisation of public services, which started in earnest during the pandemic and has proven... for a secure digital ID was cancelled in 2019 while the cost has been revised upwards to 515 million euros..., this shows that ND’s reformist rhetoric has not been matched by their record, where they are accused
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Impact of uncertainty on economy starting to emerge in hard data
EconomyFeaturesand the swelling inflation wave, has been reflected for months in sentiment surveys and is now... in the global supply chain. The conflict in Ukraine has acted as an accelerator since February.... Although the general economic sentiment managed to hold its recovery ground until February 2022, it has
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Athens ponders latest diplomatic moves by Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policy’ concerns and objections and said that Turkey has the right to search for energy in its own areas. “Our... and treaties. It seems that Ankara is currently using the exact same arguments that Athens has been... situation in the region. Turkey’s President Erdogan has tried for some time to restore relations
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First head-to-head clash over spying scandal in Parliament fails to deliver decisive blow
PoliticsGreek Politicswas listening in on Androualakis’s conversations and has no knowledge of who the agency is monitoring... process. He noted that New Democracy has already put forward some reforms of EYP’s operational procedure..., said that he has repeatedly said his communications were monitored while he was finance minister
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