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Lacklustre performance in EP elections raises key questions for mainstream parties
PoliticsGreek Politicsas expected, it has emerged battered and bruised from the contest with 28.3 percent of the vote, almost... modest gains over earlier opinion polls has bought the new SYRIZA leader some time. However, he faces... from the rest of his party that he has during the recent rally in the opinion polls. His campaigning
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PM set to avoid kneejerk reaction to poor EP poll result as centre left mulls next move
PoliticsGreek Politicshas no plans to hold elections before they are due in 2027. In this way, the ND leader sought... from within his party to adopt a more right-wing stance over the next three years. Mitsotakis has made... significantly on the government’s difficulties and SYRIZA internal wranglings has prompted some
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Election result triggers rumbling in PASOK about leadership contest
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor cooperation on a national level. However, Doukas, who is from an academic background, has little political...’s Kasselakis has already shown a willingness to cooperate with PASOK in drafting legislative proposals. He also revealed that he has written to the heads of the European left, socialists and greens
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Name deal and Beleri case test Greece's relations with North Macedonia, Albania
PoliticsForeign Policy-legitimise the Prespes Agreement. Its new Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski has pledged “to do everything... that there is no room for any violation of the Prespes Agreement. Beleri case Athens has the EU’s support... Greece and Albania. The case of the elected MEP however has now become an EU affair with certain
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NATO summit also gives PM chance to address issues with neighbours
PoliticsForeign PolicyGreek Politicsin Washington. He has already informed his European counterparts and expected to do so with the rest of his NATO ones. In fact, Mitsotakis has announced in two interviews that he will raise the issue... direction," he said. The Greek premier has accepted Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides’s
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Kasselakis struggling for equilibrium at SYRIZA as another senior official quits
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has been hit by another high profile departure from his party..., Dragasakis said the current SYRIZA has “bears no resemblance to the party I served since its foundation... on the left of the political spectrum and listing a series of positions it has taken recently on a range
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Domestic factors seen playing role in PM's pick for European Commission
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has picked Central Macedonia Governor Apostolos Tzitzikostas... has made economically, but also Greece’s sort of strategic position at the southeastern flank... parties have been gaining ground in recent elections. It has also been pointed out that Tzitzikostas
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No holiday from rancour over Athens wildfire as PM accused of downplaying damage
PoliticsGreek Politicsto PASOK’s role in drafting the RescEU programme which has allowed Greece to call on the support of other... has faced a summer of discontent, during which the cost of living has come into sharp focus against
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Central govt debt rises by 1.5 bln in Q2, to 407 bln
EconomyMacroeconomyto the first programme, which Greece has started repaying. An additional 130.9 billion relate... was signed in mid-summer 2015. Greece has already started repaid GLF and EFSF loans, having pre-paid two... 2019 and has been falling since. The debt breakdown by residual maturity showed that long-term (over 5
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Greek, Turkish foreign ministers discuss sticking points ahead of Mitsotakis-Erdogan talks
PoliticsForeign Policy-flagged research vessel Ievoli Relume has been sailing in the area to conduct research for the future... membership progress has been stalled for eight years. Few Brussels officials see much scope... economic benefits and perhaps unlock capital that has been out of reach for years. In his public statements
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