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Newsletter 469 - 04/07/2025
, centered on the Payment and Control Agency for Guidance and Guarantee Community Aid (OPEKEPE), has... parties are resisting this narrative. PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis has called for a judicial... as indicative of systemic rot. Polls indicate that New Democracy’s recent revival has halted at 24
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Athens steps up efforts to build links with Libya as EU steps in to assist
PoliticsForeign Policy. The arrival of 1,400 migrants since the weekend, has prompted Greek authorities to start talking... at the Valletta Summit on migration in November 2015. The EUTF has been the EU’s main tool... maritime memorandum signed in 2019 and not yet ratified by the Benghazi government. Athens has
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Newsletter 471 - 18/07/2025
, the ruling party has proposed a sweeping parliamentary investigation covering subsidy misuse dating... parliamentary committee has ignited controversy for three key reasons: it avoids a preliminary judicial inquiry... or administrations are excluded. He pointed to the €2.7 billion in fines Greece has incurred from
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Firefighting capabilities beefed up as blazes and water shortages weigh on government
PoliticsGreek Politicsis part of the 2-billion-euro EU-funded Aegis scheme, which has also financed other improvements in Greece... has already had many wildfires to deal with this summer, including a relatively large one on Crete, it has not yet been stretched in the way it was over the last few years. According to the European
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OPEKEPE scandal remains sore point for government despite wayward inquiry
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlthough the government has tried to deflect attention from its responsibility for the OPEKEPE farm..., and several of the ruling party's MPs, to the multi-million scandal. The inquiry has just begun.... A Politico report recently highlight that DG AGRI has flagged persistent weaknesses in property
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Greek government commits to new fiscal measures for third bailout
EconomyMacroeconomyApart from measures to safeguard financial stability, the draft bill for the third bailout tabled in Parliament on Wednesday included also the measures for restoring fiscal health. The government admitted that without any additional measures (including those voted on July 15 and 22), the primary
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PBO sees fiscal target being reached despite expansionary measures
EconomyProgrammethe concerns of the country’s lenders about the impact of the latest expansionary measures on fiscal... to announce a set of expansionary measures before the European Parliament elections without setting... of the expansionary measures at 0.55 percent of GDP, which is within the available fiscal space
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EC sees relief measures securing debt sustainability despite poorer growth, market access prospects
EconomyProgrammerelief measures that the ESM implemented in accordance with the May 2016 Eurogroup agreement. Other... baseline assumptions, and without incorporating the medium-term debt relief measures agreed in last... the new debt relief measures are takes into consideration (under the assumption that they are applied
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Consensus, conviction and the anti-racism bill
Agorathen, it seems like light years away. Samaras has since had to shed many of his convictions, going from..., rabble-rousing language he has used about migrants, such as calling for city centers to be “reclaimed... that moved with lightning speed – like it has for nothing else – to repeal the law granting second
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Polls show Golden Dawn support dropping after murder, New Democracy profiting most
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy appearing to be the party that has profited most. An Alco survey for the Newsit website... said they’d back other parties. The poll also confirms that the government has aligned itself... are “not within the boundaries of democracy.” Almost seven in 10 said the group has a Nazi ideology
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