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Fresh elections on the cards as SYRIZA reluctantly confronts full scale of defeat
PoliticsGreek Politics, which will be carried out under an enhanced majority system. The party got 40.79 percent of the vote... majority system. A repeat performance would secure the party over 151 seats out of 300, while also succeeding in ND’s ultimate goal to return to a bonus-based system. In accordance with the rules, the baton
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Newsletter 383 - 02/06/2023
a different electoral system will apply on June 25, the goal for the conservatives is to not just... seen in the first election under the more favourable enhanced majority voting system would secure... left out of parliament. Under the new bonus system, a similar result would boost the first party
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Opposition intensifies calls for political scalp over failure to avert deadly hooligan clash
PoliticsGreek Politicsspecific intelligence from neighbouring forces and its own internal warning system, allowing an organised..., an announcement by the Infrastructure Ministry hailing the delivery of the local control system at Larisa.... SYRIZA leadership hopeful Nikos Pappas said New Democracy should be ashamed for claiming that the system
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PM focusses on fairness of tax bill, leaving limited space for opposition
PoliticsGreek Politics. The prime minister has pledged that the extra tax revenues raised by the new system will be channelled... representatives say the system amounts to a poll tax which penalises entrepreneurship and are calling... the mistakes of the past. He insisted that the new system introduces greater fairness and emphasised
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PM hopes to contain farmers' protests, seeks to close other open fronts
PoliticsGreek Politicsdescribed the new system as a legal version of the notorious “brown envelope (fakelaki)” - a bribe paid... will further undermine the national health system that is already under-resourced and will result... and the system.
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Can the Green Transition be just?
Agorafor the EU’s Green Deal might lie ahead of us. In 2027, a new Emissions Trading System (ETS-2) will come..., therefore, suggest that the inclusion of electricity production in the first Emissions Trading System... not to disrupt the existing system (ETS-1), as well as to better control emissions from these two sectors, ETS-2
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ND throws weight behind pursuit of whistleblowers, prompting SYRIZA backlash
PoliticsGreek Politicsjustice system has never found any proof to support the claims that there was a conspiracy and has... of undermining the principle of whistleblowing and disrespecting the Greek justice system. Government... said that the legal amendments passed by the government mean that the Greek justice system can now
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Government acts to prevent energy price shock in move critics say comes too late
PoliticsGreek Politicsbeen warning for some time that Greece’s electricity system is vulnerable to price shocks. Recent... as a response to staff shortages in the national health system which are particularly acute... the state of the public healthcare system has been somewhat overshadowed by the reaction to a televised
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Fresh turbulence at SYRIZA as opposition parties take aim at bank deal
PoliticsGreek Politics” in the banking system. For New Democracy, this represents another symbolic step in the exit from the debt crisis, which saw the banking system reduced to four systemic lenders rescued through state... for more competition in the banking system, including institutions more willing to lend to the SME
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Government moves to implement PM's pledges despite grumblings from interest groups
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the health system. Among the issues discussed were initiatives to reduce waiting times... doctors’ pay and improving the staffing and the national health system. On Wednesday, Health...’s handling of the health system by presenting figures purporting to show improvements
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