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Spate of crimes tarnish ND's law and order image, force changes
PoliticsGreek Politicsin New Democracy’s ability to tackle criminal behaviour and ensure public safety. Law and order has been high on the government’s agenda since coming to office but repeated efforts to instil the sense... presence on the capital’s streets. It is also looking to overhaul Greece’s criminal code as part
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PM under pressure from both sides over marriage equality legislation
PoliticsGreek Politicslegislation on same-sex marriage has led the opposition to question the conservative leader’s appetite... went against the party’s tough stance on migration, the PM was able to secure the votes of all but one... vote against his conscience on same-sex marriage, was kept in his post in this week’s reshuffle
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Flurry of bills due in Parliament as legislative work resumes
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis has referred to the need for a “wave of changes” as part of Greece’s... this week the draft legislation that would allow Greeks to cast postal votes in this year’s European... of intense debate among the country’s constitutional experts. The tabling of the bill is expected
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Government lines up new zoning scheme, fuelling debate over growth model
PoliticsGreek Politicsbuilding in areas outside of the updated scheme. The new plan was presented to ministers at Tuesday’s... the European Union’s RRF programme would be used to draw up “special and local zoning plans across... by the country’s highest administrative court. The government has come under repeated criticism over
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PM hopes to contain farmers' protests, seeks to close other open fronts
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the government had supported the Commission’s proposal for a moratorium on the set-aside rules... last week, and reacted angrily to government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis’s warning that the government had reached its fiscal limits with the latest interventions. The PM’s office is more confident
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Government being tested on multiple fronts
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe sector is facing, particularly in the wake of last year’s natural disasters. The government.... There were also large protests by students last week in protest against the government’s draft.... The government’s argument that, once passed, the bill will allow top quality foreign universities to set up
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Newsletter 412 - 16/02/2024
a feather in Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s cap as far as his efforts to establish himself... is wrong to turn away from ND’s conservative beliefs. Mitsotakis had attempted to defuse any tension... of the reform is to make every Greek equal under the law, which is in line with what the country’s
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New Democracy comes out fighting against Tempe censure motion
PoliticsGreek Politicsoffice. The strategy is clearly aimed at rallying the governing party’s MPs, who have been facing...’s debate. The limits of this approach were quickly revealed, however, when the party announced...’s announcement of the initiative, Kasselakis called on the prime minister to resign rather than
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Governing party MPs rally around ex-transport minister to fend off opposition attacks
PoliticsGreek Politics, New Democracy’s parliamentary team applauded Kostas Karamanlis, who resigned as transport minister... execution. He also stood by the government’s claim that human error was the main cause of the Tempe... for the former minister’s actions, while SYRIZA president Stefanos Kasselakis posted on social media
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Androulakis hopes surveillance ruling will lead to embarrassment for government
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMitsotakis after a ruling by Greece’s highest administrative court reinstated his legal right... Androulakis’s interpretation of the ruling, claiming it is unlikely to lead to the kind of revelations... that three out of four were not convinced by the PM’s reassurances that there was no cover-up
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