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  1. Newsletter 475 - 12/09/2025

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    difference.” Rural families stand to gain from a 50 percent ENFIA cut on primary homes in villages... into “French-style” austerity. New Democracy loyalists argue that sustained budget surpluses are the only safe

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  2. EU elections in Greece: Applying a different scale of values
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    Agora

    from 29 to 20 percent, bringing down dividend tax from 15 to 5 percent, decreasing property tax by 30... is reducing taxes and bringing back EKAS [benefit for low-income pensioners],” he said. Commenting... to indicate what kind of effect these interventions had on voters’ choices but it is safe to assume

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  3. Is a lack of spending hampering Greece's firefighting capabilities?

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    the potential role of spending cuts in bringing about the disaster. In the aftermath of the criticism.... But how big a role did austerity play in bringing about last week’s tragedy? And to what extent... fire prevention and suppression of all types of fire, urban and rural) grew steadily from 2001 onwards

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  4. Splits and alliances on leaders' minds as thoughts turn to next elections
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    homosexuality to paedophilia. Tsipras chose not to respond to these remarks during his speech in Parliament..., that Interior Minister Panos Skourletis recently proposed changes to the vast Athens “B” electoral precinct

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  5. Mitsotakis sets aside talk of next Greek president to meet Trump at White House
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    and Erdogan during which the latter launched a forceful repost to the Greek president’s chiding remarks about... for the former conservative interior minister to become president in 2015, even though New Democracy

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  6. Cabinet clears marriage equality bill without drama as Tempe inquiry hears grave accusations

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    opening remarks at the cabinet meeting, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis kept it low-key, noting that legislation... in his socially progressive pronouncements. Interior Minister Niki Kerameus’s attempt to broaden

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  7. PM adds minimum wage hike to pre-election promises, with hints of more to come

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    , while some rural districts will lose seats as a result of dwindling population. Three seats will also... across electoral districts. Interior Minister Makis Voridis stated recently that the government intended

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  8. Newsletter 234 -10/01/2020

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    his first tour of Washington as Greek PM. Judging by the public remarks made by Trump before his... fall of 829 million euros, bringing the total figure to 1.10 billion euros. The equivalent figure... of the year showed that the trade deficit increased by 6.2 percent, bringing the total shortfall to 20.15

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  9. Tsipras opts for modest changes to cabinet rather than renewal
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    officials. The decision to broaden Dragasakis’s role is seen as Tsipras opting to play safe and ensuring... snap elections a month later and bringing the current government to power. In the end, though, Tsipras... of the refugee crisis. Vitsas is seen as a safe pair of hands, especially as he had involvement in migration

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  10. Mitsotakis renews call for Turkey to scrap "casus belli" - opposition unimpressed

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    , bringing our region closer.” While insisting that “renewables are the future,” he nonetheless defended... Nikos Androulakis lambasted Mitsotakis’s insistence on linking Turkey’s SAFE programme... is another mistake,” said the social democrat. “Turkey's participation in the SAFE program

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