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Impending lockdown decision highlights cabinet tensions, casts unflattering spotlight on experts
PoliticsGreek Politicson to the airwaves. On Tuesday, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias told Open TV that he was about to propose a “brief, total lockdown” for Attica modelled on that of March 2020 after seeing... impending interview on Skai TV’s evening news is no doubt intended to rectify the appearance
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Vaccines provide govt with hope of pandemic exit as labour reform battle gathers pace
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece was expected to hit 3 million vaccinations in total on Wednesday as the government prepared... suggested in a TV interview that the government had started vaccinating the 30-39 age group because... Democracy’s own failings in managing the virus. He argued during his TV appearance that Mitsotakis
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Newsletter 333 - 01/04/2022
-of-living. When asked by Alco as part of a survey for Open TV this week whether the measures adopted...”, and 29 pct said “a bit.” A Pulse poll for Skai TV indicated that 85 pct of Greeks are very... suffered a decline, from 14.1 pct to 13. The sounding carried out by Pulse for Skai TV gives ND 32 pct
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Polls give ND clear lead as SYRIZA struggles to shape narrative
PoliticsGreek Politicsdo not offer a substantially different picture. The Alco survey for Alpha TV puts ND 6.7 percentage... system gives 125 out of a total 300 to ND, 99 to SYRIZA, 30 to PASOK, 19 to KKE, 16 to MeRA25 and 11... Katrougkalos during a TV interview. Katrougkalos suggested that SYRIZA may consider bringing back
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Opposition set to back same-sex marriage bill, easing passage through Parliament
PoliticsGreek Politicsare needed for any bill to pass. There are doubts that the PM could muster a reduced total, meaning he... to Star TV on Thursday night, Kasselakis said that SYRIZA will support the legislation even thought he... that Kasselakis intended to apply the party whip over the vote during the leader’s TV interview
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Mitsotakis tempers expectations for EP vote, Kasselakis talks up prospects
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn an extensive TV interview on Thursday night, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set the bar... achieved in the EP vote five years ago. Speaking to Skai TV, he said that the yardstick for measuring... in total that Greece sent to the European Parliament. Recent opinion polls have indicated that ND
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ND appears on track for election goal, opposition labouring
PoliticsGreek Politicsas the conservatives won in the last Euro vote five years ago. A Pulse survey for Skai TV put New Democracy’s.... Ultranationalist Greek Solution is seen gaining 9 pct. An Alco poll for Alpha TV forecasts ND gaining.... A Marc survey for ANT-1 TV indicates that ND could win 33.8 pct of the vote, SYRIZA 15.2 pct
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Property tax notices for 2016 to be issued, collection target remains same
EconomyMacroeconomythat the total ENFIA due for 2016 will remain at last year’s levels. The ministry clarified that 34 percent... amount. However, 690,000 taxpayers (less than 10 percent of total) would have to pay a higher ENFIA... in 2015 compared to a total tax due of 3.25 billion. This means the collectability rate was 81.6 percent
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Newsletter 417 - 22/03/2024
by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country's data protection authority, while several... the upcoming European Parliament elections, and the resignations of a senior Interior Ministry official... that the email list was leaked from the Interior Ministry during the tenure of the caretaker government
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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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