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Rivalry between New Democracy and PASOK set for revival
PoliticsGreek Politicson Thursday which showed that support for the socialists has increased by almost four points since... between New Democracy and PASOK has closed by around 3 percentage points since last month. Support for ND stands at 22.5 pct, up half a point from September, while PASOK’s backing has risen to 15.3
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ND and SYRIZA contend with internal strife as PASOK advances
PoliticsGreek Politics. The spat between Mitsotakis and former PM Antonis Samaras, who has been critical of government policy, particularly vis a vis relations with Turkey, has become a main topic of coverage in the local media. It has also soured the mood within the conservative party’s parliamentary group, where Samaras still
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Newsletter 440 - 08/11/2024
to be directed to the domestic audience as much as his eventual interlocutors across the pond. The PM has... administration. The PM has also on occasion used the epithet “Trumpian” to attack his political... more ammunition to those who claim that the PM’s socially liberal agenda has drawn the focus away
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PASOK pushes back against PM's refusal to tax excess bank profits
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the government expects much from Greece’s lenders but that it has no plans to impose an extra... that his government is aiming to convince Greece’s European partners and the markets that the country has “left behind its difficult years.” The PM said that the government has to explain to citizens
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Newsletter 445 - 13/12/2024
contrast to the government’s position. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has made it clear... direct, methods of putting pressure on lenders with regard to their practices. It has been reported... on the matter. He argued that New Democracy inherited a severely damaged banking sector in 2019 and has
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Opposition mulls censure motion as poll makes public discontent over Tempe clear
PoliticsGreek Politicsappears to have misjudged the public’s mood in relation to this issue. It seems that New Democracy has... at the leaders’ level to discuss the Tempe developments. The government has agreed but a date for the discussion has not yet been set. The Mitsotakis administration is attempting to show that it has nothing
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PM ponders reshuffle as PASOK mulls inability to make gains
PoliticsGreek Politicswill unveil his new ministerial line-up after New Democracy veteran Konstantinos Tasoulas has been... elections. Support for the ruling conservatives has been fading fast over the last few weeks as public anger over the Tempe train crash has grown. The reshuffle will also represent an opportunity
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Konstantopoulou dominates opposition politics as PASOK and SYRIZA struggle to make mark
PoliticsGreek Politicsaffair. Mitsotakis is hoping to follow up on the increase to the minimum wage, which has risen by more... since 2020, and housing, which has increased by 17 pct during the same period. Course of Freedom... of Freedom overtake them in recent opinion polls. The party’s leader, Zoe Konstantopoulou, has also
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New Democracy continues to court right-wing voters with defence package, identity politics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsDemocracy has little to be complacent about, while rumblings from the conservative wing of the party... parliamentary party convenes to elect a new head. The PM’s pick, MP Apostolos Vesyropoulos, has already... candidate from the traditional wing of the party. Mitsotakis has promised to give the podium to any MP
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Athens insists maritime spatial planning plans do not obstruct talks with Turkey
PoliticsForeign Policyof its obligations towards a European directive (2014/89/ΕΕ) which has been sanctioned over... ready to cooperate with Greece in the Aegean Sea”. For the last couple of years, Turkey has presented... are not neighbouring states. Egypt and Greece signed their own maritime boundary treaty in 2020. Greece has also
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