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SYRIZA reproaches PM and ministers over wealth declarations, loans
PoliticsGreek Politics) has sparked a reaction from main opposition party SYRIZA, which is attempting to portray Prime... as together with his wife he has almost 1.3 million euros in outstanding loans, according to his pothen esches... to the pothen esches process, which was launched in 2003 but has not really improved the level
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Athens cultivates Saudi Arabia relations, prepares for MBS visit
PoliticsForeign PolicyFor some time, Athens has been investing in new partnerships in the wider Middle East region.... It is no coincidence that in the last couple of years Athens has been seeking to enhance relations with countries..., Greece has taken advantage of the deterioration in relations between Riyadh and Ankara forging
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ND faces fiscal balancing act and more challenges over spying scandal
PoliticsGreek Politicsbelt-tightening measures. Opinion poll There has been little change in the support for the leading... Syntakton. New Democracy’s rating remains at 31, while SYRIZA’s has edged up half a point to 25.5. PASOK... policy issues (49 vs 28). The policy areas where SYRIZA has the upper hand are corruption
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Spying scandal triggers high-level resignations, serious questions for government and PM
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy has seen ministers, MPs and other officials forced to step aside since it came to power.... Dimitriadis denies any involvement with Predator and has filed SLAPP lawsuits against... in December last year. It has been noted that EYP’s wiretapping was launched around the same time
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Political impact of spying revelations unclear, as drip-feed of information continues
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor its support of the government, cited confidential reports that EYP has had 7-8 politicians under..., who have consistently demanded to know how widespread EYP’s surveillance has been among... formed cyber unit within EYP which has access to classified procurement budgets. Unnamed government
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Greece beefs up border security to counter migration flow
PoliticsForeign PolicyAthens believes the migration crisis has entered a new phase, calling it a hybrid attack on Greece by Turkey. As a result, the Greek government has decided to deploy additional measures to protect... in human trafficking. The Greek government also has in mind the recent incident of the 38 Syrian
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Parties tussle over scope of surveillance probe as latest poll puts Mitsotakis in frame
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThere has been no let-up in the pressure on Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his government... Androulakis, which the PM has already admitted to, leaving out of scope the use of the Predator spyware... of Predator. PASOK has also asked for the inquiry to look into allegations made by Communist Party
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Scandal erodes support for ND, complicates path to elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsa month ago suggests that the scandal has soured the mood as far as New Democracy is concerned...-tapping has not been particularly successful. According to Metron Analysis, 61 pct of respondents... PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis. Mitsotakis has insisted that he did not know and that as soon as he
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Erdogan's inflammatory comments a harbinger for new period of Greek-Turkish tension
PoliticsForeign Policyis undermining our alliance’s cohesion at a particularly dangerous juncture”. Even though Athens has so... of border changes that has nothing to do with the international law and the European Union”. Moreover... Greece" that cannot accept “the stable, western path that our liberal democracy has chosen
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Opposition lambasts Mitsotakis over support package, accuses PM of election scaremongering
PoliticsGreek Politicsof authoritarianism and typified the personality politics in which he has invested. The main opposition parties.... Mitsotakis in turn has tried to paint them as opportunists seeking to exploit a bureaucratic error for political gain. His tactic has been to present any alliance between the two as a threat to political
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