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Changes to energy subsidies aimed at winning over middle class
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the European Union has failed to react decisively enough, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined... to disassociate his government from the cost-of-living crisis. He explained that the war in Ukraine has been... that the EU has failed to rise to the circumstances, unlike during the pandemic when it created
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SYRIZA hope Tsipras re-election ballot will bear fruit as poll figures remain stagnant
PoliticsGreek Politicsby PASOK officials and neutral observers. This has piled the pressure on SYRIZA, which has a lower... members at the last elections, in 2019, but has managed to increase that number to almost 62,000 since... of voting preferences, support for New Democracy has edged up slightly since March, rising by half
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Media freedom concerns continue to bedevil Mitsotakis govt as EC takes note
PoliticsGreek Politicsof disinformation campaigns by unaccountable NGOs. Their response has failed to clear the air regarding significant... of spyware on the same journalist’s phone. The government has once again denied that it engages... to EU funding, which has already been invoked to block Hungary from receiving RRF funds. Perhaps
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Newsletter 339 - 27/05/2022
of 0.5 points taking it to 20.3 pct. In third place, PASOK-KINAL has dropped 2.6 points since April... of the support it has lost over the last few months as the cost-of-living crisis has gripped Greek households... over day-to-day issues such as energy costs rather than foreign policy. ND has a distinct advantage
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Tension with Turkey dominates government agenda at home and abroad
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government in Athens has turned its focus on the deteriorating relations with Turkey, raising... in the eastern Mediterranean with his fellow EU leaders. “Greece is a country which has international law..., Turkish interference has been blamed for summer wildfires in Greece without substantiating evidence
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PM trails more relief, insists on dominant role for ND in future govt
PoliticsGreek Politicsand responded with the message he has honed to the question which has arisen repeatedly over recent... in the next electoral contest, has given his views a heightened relevance, which the prime minister was keen... outside his own party as he has done in the past. “The prime minister must be the leader
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Handling of energy crisis under fire as gas interruption tests supply security
PoliticsGreek Politicsminister reiterated his argument that the energy crisis is a global phenomenon to which Greece has been.... The opposition counters that that inflation has exposed structural problems with the Greek markets which...-anticipated regulatory framework for electricity storage, the lack of which has been blamed
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Judges' Novartis decision revives political battle over bribery scandal
PoliticsGreek Politics, including the publisher of left-leaning Documento, Kostas Vaxavanis, who has been involved in a long-running... that SYRIZA has little to shout about since Papangelopoulos, hand-picked by former Prime Minister Alexis... an epidemiological study to boost sales. However, in Greece, nobody has so far been convicted
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Govt turns attention to more relief measures in absence of snap polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsunconvinced that Mitsotakis has genuinely abandoned plans to hold snap elections, media reports over... at the Thessaloniki International Fair in early September. The PM has already announced that he will scrap... year. Of course, the prime minister has to weigh this against the messages he is receiving from
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Fire on outskirts of Athens puts PM's crisis strategy under scrutiny
PoliticsGreek Politicsto bring the change that is necessary. One of the other issues that Stylianides has been tasked... about the “unprecedented bureaucracy” he has encountered since taking up the job in Greece, which he... overall approach to natural disasters. Political fallout So far, New Democracy has deflected any
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