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Labour agreement hailed by government as restoration of pre-crisis rights
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy is a party of insiders and big business. The government’s claims were challenged by New Left MP... any knowledge of assets of 2.4 million euros in her family’s bank accounts which are under... Democracy’s stance to its desire to use Xylouris’s testimony against Antonopoulos in an attempt
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Farmers’ fury grows as government scrambles for response
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s farmers are intensifying their mobilisation, choking highways and border crossings... of the country’s transport network. Events on the Athens–Thessaloniki national road at Nikaia... of New Democracy’s polling numbers, dominating headlines and undermining the government’s attempt
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PM stands firm on festive blockades as farmers demand policies, not policing
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment will not “succumb to blackmail”. Ahead of Tuesday’s cabinet meeting – the last of the year - he... stability are off the table. He pointed to the government’s record of support measures — subsidies... to highlight perceived shortcomings in the government’s economic and rural policy. Farmers have also
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Government hoping dispute with farmers on way to being resolved as it counts cost of damage
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy’s side over the last few weeks, could soon dissipate, allowing room for the two sides to enter... in the government’s ranks about how to deal with the situation. Some officials favour a more.... Naftemporiki reported on Monday that a second case file from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office
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Farmers and government edge towards dialogue after weeks of escalation
PoliticsGreek Politicspricing — fuelled the escalation of protests. Yet the government’s eventual concession to a direct... electricity costs. The government’s GAIA programme set agricultural tariffs at 0.085 euros per kilowatt hour... at Tuesday’s meeting and to set “red lines” for negotiations. Behind the scenes, informal contacts
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Polls highlight new party's disruptive potential as opposition calls foul over flights blackout
PoliticsGreek Politics, giving rise to speculation that it could reshape Greece’s political landscape in the run-up... party, Karystianou’s move into politics has already caused a backlash among other families... the communications blackout which closed Greece’s airspace for several hours on January 4 is beginning
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Health minister hogs spotlight, puts PM in tricky position
PoliticsGreek Politicsof the minister’s political method: a parliamentary shouting match with Zoe Konstantopoulou, a defamation... a complaint against the doctor. Given Georgiadis’s track record, these incidents do not seem... local columnist described him as having built a “Trumpist island” inside New Democracy’s electorate
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Is the Greek green transition running out of power?
Agora?’ and was written by our energy expert Georgia Nakou. It is an in‑depth assessment of Greece’s progress toward its energy and climate goals and the political forces now reshaping the country’s energy strategy... exploration. The government’s recent calls for looser EU climate targets underscore this recalibration
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More concern for coalition than cheer for SYRIZA in latest poll figures
PoliticsGreek Politicsas the country’s most popular party. The latest Public Issue opinion poll, published on September 11... but the poll’s findings should be more of a source of concern for the New Democracy-led government than... and its leader, Alexis Tsipras, are having problems gaining the trust of voters. Tsipras’s personal
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What do Greeks fear most? The lack of justice
Society’s National School of Public Health and underlined the damaging effect the crisis is having on people’s well-being. Six in 10 respondents said the country’s economic problems had negatively affected... the country’s fiscal adjustment, while others that existed before the crisis have not yet been addressed
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