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Mitsotakis pushes for broad consensus after surprise announcement on postal vote
PoliticsGreek Politicswas unexpected, New Democracy has strong motives to move in this direction. One is the party’s strong ties with the Greek diaspora, and the other is its strong base among the older demographics. The party has... to increase democratic participation and provide a strong response to voter apathy. The proposal
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Newsletter 247 -10/04/2020
significant short-term effects on the real estate market.” This trend will reverse a strong year in 2019 for Greece’s property market, which saw the nominal value of apartments in Greece reach 7.5 percent... the economy. Speaking on Skai TV on Sunday, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said that he believes
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Newsletter 340 - 03/06/2022
, adding, “we have strong allies and of course we have invested even more in our deterrence, so... that there would be a quiet summer, but this pledge appears to have foundered less than three months later... the fact that this swap was announced by the German leader, rather than Mitsotakis, and that there had been
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Newsletter 410 - 02/02/2024
appear to have strong support among the general public in Greece. An opinion poll by Pulse, broadcast on Skai TV on Thursday, indicates that 68 pct of Greeks are “certainly” or “probably” positively... it was in the range of 10 pct of GDP and represented more than 40 pct of total investment in the same period
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Newsletter 427 - 14/06/2024
points lower than PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s stated target of 33. The conservative ruling party secured just 7 seats in the European Parliament, one fewer than in the last elections in 2019. ND lost... as leader. Although lower than the party’s 2019 performance this target would represent a gain over
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Why doesn't Tsipras just cut defence spending?
Agorathe crisis began, more than 70 percent of the defence budget was used to pay staff but, according... been trimmed down, NATO spending requirements mean that it is required to invest more than 2..., right-wing Antonis Samaras, faced strong criticism after cutting the wages of military personnel
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Effort to unite PASOK and Potami seems to have hit a wall
PoliticsGreek Politicsdespite PASOK’s strong criticism of the Alexis Tsipras’s administration. It is not clear... the opportunity provided by voters’ strong dissatisfaction with the ruling SYRIZA-Independent Greeks coalition. A new University of Macedonia poll for Skai TV and radio indicates that dissatisfaction
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High level of opposition to Macedonia name deal seems to boost New Democracy’s ratings
PoliticsGreek Politicsname deal, which has received strong backing from European officials but is proving to be highly unpopular within Greece. An opinion poll by Pulse for Skai TV published on Thursday indicates that 62... about the political cost of settling a dispute that has lasted more than 25 years because he believes
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Mitsotakis earns space to govern with big win, Tsipras limits damage
PoliticsGreek Politics, there was an expectation that support for SYRIZA would have been below 30 percent. The result delivers a strong... and exit polls indicated that SYRIZA would gain less than 30 percent of the vote. The result means that Tsipras’s leadership of the party will not be challenged. In fact, he has a strong base to work from
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Mitsotakis buoyed by poll ratings, boost to growth narrative
PoliticsGreek Politicsappears to have secured strong backing for some of the key policy decisions it has taken so far... his visit to Athens. In an interview with ANT-1 TV, he highlighted the cooperation that has already... stressed the strong US interest in exporting LNG to Greece and using it as a hub to move the fuel
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