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No holiday from rancour over Athens wildfire as PM accused of downplaying damage
PoliticsGreek Politicsto PASOK’s role in drafting the RescEU programme which has allowed Greece to call on the support of other... has faced a summer of discontent, during which the cost of living has come into sharp focus against
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Central govt debt rises by 1.5 bln in Q2, to 407 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyto the first programme, which Greece has started repaying. An additional 130.9 billion relate... was signed in mid-summer 2015. Greece has already started repaid GLF and EFSF loans, having pre-paid two... 2019 and has been falling since. The debt breakdown by residual maturity showed that long-term (over 5
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Greek, Turkish foreign ministers discuss sticking points ahead of Mitsotakis-Erdogan talks
PoliticsForeign Policy-flagged research vessel Ievoli Relume has been sailing in the area to conduct research for the future... membership progress has been stalled for eight years. Few Brussels officials see much scope... economic benefits and perhaps unlock capital that has been out of reach for years. In his public statements
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Kasselakis lays out plans for SYRIZA rebrand amid rumours of leadership challenge
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor a critical meeting of its central committee. Leader Stefanos Kasselakis has started setting out his... opinion poll, the third of the autumn, has come to confirm the detrimental impact that the protracted infighting at SYRIZA has had on the party’s popularity. The projection published by Opinion Poll
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SYRIZA consumed by new leadership drama as PASOK rubber stamps candidacies
PoliticsGreek Politicsof SYRIZA’s central committee members to oust Stefanos Kasselakis as the party president has set in motion... politics. Since Kasselakis’s victory last year, the party has allowed itself to become something of a soap... opportunity has arisen for the social democrats to steal a march on their leftist rivals and establish
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Government moves to implement PM's pledges despite grumblings from interest groups
PoliticsGreek Politicsand hospitals. On Monday he chaired a meeting on the school refurbishment programme, which has been allocated... three years. He also has the task of appeasing his own party, many of whom were disappointed... leader has maintained an uncharacteristic silence since the surprise result of Sunday’s censure vote.
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Athens moves to avoid repeat of EU division over migration policy
PoliticsForeign Policycountries, like Greece. However, the European Commission has always avoided intervening... route, the list of notifications has continued to grow. From 37 cases of temporary reintroduction...; that is to follow the example of Italy’s memorandum with Albania. In the meantime, the EU has signed
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New measures yet to deliver poll bump for ND as SYRIZA sinks further
PoliticsGreek Politicspublished over the past few days suggest that New Democracy has not been able to recover from its..., suggests that the needle has barely moved for New Democracy since the June ballot. The opinion poll... for those within the party opposed to his candidacy, who feel that he has damaged SYRIZA since taking over
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Athens aiming to maintain momentum in talks with Ankara, while sticking to basic positions
PoliticsForeign Policywill be decided when the time is right. It should be noted that Ankara, via a 1995 declaration, has taken a decision that if Greece extends its territorial water to 12 nautical miles - as it has... ago. Gerapetritis also noted that “it has now been proven historically that in complex foreign policy
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Mitsotakis ups stakes in clash with opposition and internal rivals
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy’s founding. His surliness has been accompanied by growing unrest among New Democracy MPs... indicates that support for New Democracy has not rebounded following its recent dip and remains at 25... and how the far right vote in Greece has been bolstered amid the recent fragmentation
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