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PM hopes to reset narrative with positive announcements
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPM Kyriakos Mitsotakis has launched into a good news offensive at the start of the political season... on the economy, Mitsotakis has been marking each day with an announcement. On Monday, he hailed the arrival.... There will be no generous spending plans announced at this year’s TIF as the government has already
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PM gears up for communications drive as PASOK marks 50 years
PoliticsGreek Politicsto be the government’s response to the housing crisis, which has seen many Greeks shut out of the market due to high... euros. The government has faced criticism over the last few months for proceeding too slowly... after the summer break indicated that support for the conservatives has decreased further since
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Mitsotakis looks to last-minute announcements to top up lean TIF offerings
PoliticsGreek Politics, the government has been bargaining with the European Commission to try and loosen the new fiscal rules which come... euros. This amount has already been parcelled out to boost spending on health and education... shortages and poor regional coverage, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis has ignited a row about media
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Poll confirms ND dominance as PASOK hopefuls eye challenger role
PoliticsGreek Politicspercent. Among the smaller parties, hard right Voice of Logic (Foni Logikis) has taken the lead with 4.1... for late November, while Tsipras has maintained his distance from the wrangling of recent weeks... EP elections. The GPO poll finds that Androulakis has the support of just over a third of the party
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Kasselakis ousting confirmed as SYRIZA slips in polls, which also carry warnings for ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsopinion poll suggested there has been a significant drop in support for the leftist party. SYRIZA’s... – backing for SYRIZA has dropped to 7 pct, from 11.1 pct in June. This places SYRIZA fifth, behind... point of view is that the latest percentage is higher than New Democracy’s share, which has fallen to 41
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PASOK sets terms for leadership debate as voters show mild interest in vote
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPASOK has decided the framework for the debate between its six leadership candidates as a new... leading candidates held a week later. The race has not captured much of the public’s imagination so.... Of course, PASOK’s next leader could see this figure as evidence that the party has a significant pool
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Mitsotakis sees poll rise despite ongoing spat with critical MP
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat support for ND has risen since the last sounding. Support for the conservatives was up to 24.4... 11.7 pct. SYRIZA has slipped to fourth, on 7.8 pct, behind Greek Solution in third on 8.3 pct... reaches more than 17 pct. It is the first time that an increase in support for New Democracy has
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Diffuse support fuels speculation about change to electoral law
PoliticsGreek Politicsto secure enough support in the next general elections to form a government on its own. This has fuelled... have been damaged by the fragmentation of support, which has seen a number of fringe parties build... to be awarded bonus seats. New Democracy has already changed the electoral law once, switching from
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Middle East escalation prompts government concerns about migration
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Israel. The Greek air force has already made available a transport plane to evacuate Cypriot... be the unarmed civilians of the wider region. A senior diplomatic source has briefed the state news agency ANA-MPA that Greece has taken the initiative of forming a special task force made up of foreign
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Ministers dispatched to deal with disgruntled MPs as cost of living complaints dog ND
PoliticsGreek Politicscolleagues that the government has been doing its best to manage inflation and improve earnings, focussing... rebuffed the minister’s invitation to express his concerns to him privately. Vlachos has become a thorn... Hatzidakis, which Vlachos co-signed with 10 of his colleagues. The MP has since pursued the finance
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