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Mati fire verdict prompts legal blame game as PM pledges swifter justice
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe court verdict in the Mati wildfire trial has become the subject of political jockeying between... the current government has made to legislation since it came into power since 2019 have made sentencing stricter. This is not the first time that the New Democracy administration has aimed criticism at its
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Mitsotakis accused of flippancy over handling of diplomatic relations with neighbours
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the 2025 national elections has been described as a deliberate provocation by Greece’s opposition parties... the EU. While Mitsotakis has been arguing that relations with Albania, including the treatment... and their affiliates from politics. The decision has been challenged by the prosecutor of the appeals court
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Party leaders crank up campaign machinery for EP elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsif Halkida on Evia a day later. Keen not to be outdone, SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has recently... this particularly method of communication late in his campaign. However, Kasselakis has relied on Tik-Tok... since Kasselakis has taken over the party because many of those intending to vote for the leftists do
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PM defends scepticism about name deal as he waits for official position from Skopje
PoliticsForeign Policycoming to power it has respected the agreement even though it has not yet ratified in Parliament... to be ratified. Opposition party SYRIZA has said that it will bring a proposal for these protocols to be voted on in Parliament. Mitsotakis explained that his approach has been vindicated by the stance
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Mitsotakis hints at post-election policy tweaks to address economic concerns
PoliticsGreek Politicsweek’s EP elections, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has started to sketch out several specific interventions that the government is mulling for after the polls. Mitsotakis has set the goal... interviews focus on employment and housing. On the employment front, the government has stated
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Dissent grows within SYRIZA as polls indicated appetite for joined-up centre left
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor comfort, while presenting ruling New Democracy with a fragmented opposition. The outcome has kicked off... percent followed by Doukas with 17.2 percent. No contest has yet been declared and no challenger has formally put themselves forward, however Androulakis has indicated he will go along
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Impact of EP elections continues to reverberate across main parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsis expected to use the meeting to initiate a reset in line with what he has outlined as the party’s core... that ND under Mitsotakis has drifted too far to the centre with the appointment of centre-left politicians.... SYRIZA upheaval At SYRIZA, leader Stefanos Kasselakis has responded to his internal critics by going
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ND throws weight behind pursuit of whistleblowers, prompting SYRIZA backlash
PoliticsGreek Politicspolitical figures. Political clash There has been a set pattern to the political element of the Novartis affair: SYRIZA has been intent on implicating former New Democracy and PASOK ministers in the affair, while ND has wanted to prove that its left-wing opponents organised a conspiracy aimed
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Government faces backlash over emergency energy package
PoliticsGreek Politics” for being unable to afford even a short holiday. While the rising cost of living has been named as the top concern for Greek voters for some time, this has not posed a serious challenge to New Democracy’s dominance for as long as the opposition has remained divided and mired in introspection. While
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Opposition striving to ensure surveillance scandal remains live issue
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government, which has accused the opposition parties of not respecting the judiciary’s independence... to the ruling on the spyware scandal, the opposition has also zoomed in on Health Minister Adonis... not take any legal action against those who sought to bug him. Georgiadis has brushed off the issue
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