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Tsipras steps in to limit damage, Mitsotakis eyes tax cuts and fiscal targets
PoliticsGreek Politicswould not stand as a candidate in the upcoming elections after admitting on TV that she pulled strings... is in order to deliver pre-election favours, has hampered SYRIZA’s effort to mount a comeback after... an extensive defeat in the local elections. In a TV interview on Thursday night, Finance Minister
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Tsipras responds to criticism of SYRIZA record in bid to rally support
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras’s interview with Skai TV almost a year on after he issued a ban on SYRIZA officials... as possible. SYRIZA has had a troubled relationship with the TV channel, particularly since 2015... its law and order agenda and emphasise its intention to clamp down on what it argues
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Trouble from Turkey prompts plans for extra defence spending after years of cuts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinister Christos Staikouras said in a TV interview that New Democracy is prepared to dip into Greece’s..., that the spending would not concern just arms purchases. Staikouras told Alpha TV that “if possible... Gerapetritis also confirmed in an TV interview that discussions are taking place about ways
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Newsletter 292 - 09/04/2021
handling of the pandemic, the government hit back this week via a primetime TV interview with Prime.... In an interview to Star TV on Wednesday, Mitsotakis defended the government’s record on handling....” His comments came after SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras launched an attack on the government during a TV
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Newsletter 374 - 17/03/2023
for Open TV this week suggested that the ruling centre-right party’s rating has dropped from 30.2 pct... to the MRB survey. The Prorata poll for Attica TV indicated that support for ND has fallen from 31 pct... in comments that Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis made to Skai TV over the weekend, when he
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PASOK's Androulakis eyes kingmaker role as margin between main players shrinks
PoliticsGreek Politicsin a split outcome. In the course of a lengthy TV interview on Tuesday evening, PM Kyriakos..., Mitsotakis told Alpha TV that the PASOK leader had declined two invitations to face-to-face meetings since... on him. In his interview with ERT TV on Wednesday, Androulakis showed no more willingness to negotiate
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Mitsotakis looks to last-minute announcements to top up lean TIF offerings
PoliticsGreek Politicsin order to deliver on its promises. This message was reiterated by the PM’s spokesman, Pavlos Marinakis, who told Open TV on Wednesday that any handouts likely to be announced by Mitsotakis would... for political reasons. Georgiadis claimed that Mega TV, owned by shipowner Vangelis Marinakis, was spending
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PASOK leadership ballot draws attention away from PM's deepening rift with predecessors
PoliticsGreek Politicsto the celebrations. In this context, their absence from Friday’s party was even more notable. In a TV interview... night. Speaking to Open TV, he said that he would be willing to take on board proposals from... in order to back the two candidates they felt provided a credible alternative to Prime Minister Kyriakos
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Opposition parties bring Tempe issue back to Parliament after mass protests
PoliticsGreek Politicsdeliver justice, not TV panels or politicians. He added that the judicial investigation... that the protests featured low on the broadcaster’s TV news agenda while the demonstrations were taking... leader Nikos Androulakis in a TV interview on Monday morning. In what was clearly an attempt to ratchet
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Greece and the euro: The flight of Icarus
AgoraOver the last three years, you won’t have read a newspaper article, seen a TV report or listened... during this crisis has been of the highest order, providing insight into a complex problem, but some... version of what has happened in Greece in order to support their preconceived ideas about fiscal
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