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Parties ponder next steps as dust settles following local elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsown ranks. Despite the defiant spin put on the results, the outcome was a chastening one for ND... stressing that the party’s goal is to reclaim the role of main opposition on its own steam. SYRIZA cadres
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PM allows his MPs to abstain from same-sex marriage vote, puts ball in opposition court
PoliticsGreek Politicscritics to distinguish his bill from draft legislation put forward by SYRIZA which would allow same... have so far reacted negatively to this assumption, however their own positions on the subject would... Androulakis warned Mitsotakis “not to expect PASOK to solve the internal problems of his own party”, adding
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Opposition set to back same-sex marriage bill, easing passage through Parliament
PoliticsGreek Politicslegislation being put forward by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, which now looks to have a chance... accused Mitsotakis of taking a “cowardly” stance by not forcing his own parliamentarians to back..., accusing him of turning to the opposition to get him out of a political corner because of his own
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Government tries to appease farmers, will continue to court political centre
PoliticsGreek Politicsis not joining New Democracy is Andreas Loverdos, who announced on Tuesday that he is forming his own party... was widely regarded as a matter of time as his right-of-centre positions on several issues put him at odds... followed this pattern. He quit PASOK in 2012 and then formed his own party, Pact for a New Greece
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Great Expectations: Is Greece 2.0 hitting the target?
EconomyFeatures), and "Greece 2.0”, the national strategy designed to put it to use, have been a critical component... that is having a significant dampening effect on growth. The government’s own RRF spending targets for 2023 were... RRF loans, bank loans and own funds, with a total envelope of 20.9 billion euros. Around 42 percent
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Investigations into voter email leak continue despite denials from government
PoliticsGreek Politicsof a statement by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis that his office had carried out its own investigation... will also seek to contact the ministry official put in charge of the internal audit into the leak... will keep its own file on Tempe open. They later wrote to the Speaker of the Greek Parliament asking
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Newsletter 417 - 22/03/2024
to put potentially damaging issues behind it as quickly as possible met with limited success this week... Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis that his office had conducted its own investigation into the leak, which... information and protect its own politicians from scrutiny. The debate was marked by the absence
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Government faces backlash over emergency energy package
PoliticsGreek Politics, banking and food. Androulakis claimed Greeks were made to feel like “strangers in their own land... in the conservative wing of his own party. In the latest development, conservative MPs are reported..., was called off after fourteen New Democracy MPs on the committee objected to the candidate put forward
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Dispute over hospital doctor shortages rages as minister makes controversial Turkey comments
PoliticsGreek Politicspublic broadcaster ERT. Exadaktylos also warned that the government should not put off young doctors... as “invaders”, Georgiadis saw an opportunity to raise his own profile by making comments that would... is as another effort by the right wing of the ruling party trying to carve out its own space in the wake
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PASOK candidates make final push as government plays down latest dig from rogue MPs
PoliticsGreek Politicsfaces a challenge of his own to keep a lid on the simmering tensions in his party, as another group... to George Papandreou has put forward several well-developed economic proposals in the context... from within his own party on Wednesday, when a group of eight New Democracy MPs tabled a question
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