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Resignations over EU subsidy scandal deliver new blow to PM, further tarnishing image
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has suffered another serious blow to his image and his... revolves around a widespread misuse of EU agricultural subsidies overseen by OPEKEPE, which has... much money has been distributed based on fraudulent claims but Tassos Telloglou, the investigative
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Government adamant snap polls are not under consideration
PoliticsGreek Politicsby the government due to the public backlash over the Tempe train crash, has fuelled speculation about... will be held in 2027, as Mitsotakis has repeatedly stated. Snap elections are far from unusual in Greece. Since the fall of the military dictatorship in 1974, Greece has held 20 national elections
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Newsletter 508 - 12/06/2026
PoliticsND enters campaign mode as SYRIZA steps aside and Samaras loomsGreek politics has entered... strategy and the broader opposition landscape. New Democracy has shifted into campaign mode, Kyriakos Mitsotakis has sharpened his message of stability and continuity, SYRIZA has taken
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Samaras escalates row with PM as ELAS tries to build credibility
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor manoeuvre. Over recent weeks, pressure on Maximos has begun to converge from multiple directions: Antonis Samaras has escalated his personal confrontation with Kyriakos Mitsotakis over the Predator... long‑running dispute with the government. He has repeatedly raised the issue in Parliament
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No image availableMalkoutzis, a journalist who has spent more than 15 years covering Greece for local and international... also wrote a weekly column for the newspaper. His work has also appeared in Bloomberg Businessweek and other international publications such as Die Zeit and The Guardian. Nick has written several
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How big is Greek fiscal gap? Will cuts be needed? Here's our Q&A
PoliticsGreek Politics" with Greece's lenders. Essentially, this means that the Greek government feels it has hit a brick... from the equation, Merkel has taken the matter back to square one and the troika's return to Athens... for an amount that might reach as much as 800 million. No troika official has spoken publicly
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The EU, the troika inquiry and the big disconnect
Agoraand arduous, and has exerted – and is continuing to exert – hard sacrifices,” said European Council... the eurozone bailouts have been constructed and implemented has been long overdue. The inquiry, led... of the S&D group, has the authority to conduct public hearings with key institutional figures and to visit
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Newsletter 17 - 27/02/2015
those belonging to SYRIZA’s Left Platform, which is led by Energy Minister Panayiotis Lafazanis, has.... Varoufakis has suggested that one way of covering the shortfall would be for the European Central Bank to release 1.9 billion from profits it has made by buying Greek bonds on the secondary market (SMP
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Newsletter 58 - 15/01/2016
not offered any assessment at that stage. The IMF spokesman also said on Thursday that it has.... In the context of the review, the Finance Ministry has also to prepare and present the medium-term... that he is targeting the support of anyone who has voted for PASOK, SYRIZA, Potami and New
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