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Mitsotakis gears up for rule of law debate amid multi-front political crisis
PoliticsGreek Politicsa dialogue on institutional reform. Mitsotakis has spent the weeks leading up to the Easter break in fire..., and a proposed six-year term for the office of President. As he has done on previous occasions, the PM... and focus on national priorities. While this approach has worked on previous occasions, his political
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Newsletter 502 - 24/04/2026
this week confirmed that support for New Democracy has slipped back to pre‑Iran war levels, erasing... the appointment and resignation of Makarios Lazaridis as deputy agriculture minister - has punctured the government’s sense of stability. Crucially, the drop has not translated into gains for any major
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PM, sector leaders make it clear energy security is country's top transition priority
PoliticsGreek Politicsenergy agenda is over. Energy security, which was long treated as a secondary concern, has become.... For Mitsotakis, the crisis exposes a deeper structural weakness. Europe has a climate policy, he said... comes from renewables, and the country has moved from having the EU’s highest wholesale prices
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Tsipras aim to redraw political map as ND drafts plan to contain ELAS
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAlexis Tsipras has set out the identity, strategy and governing ambition of his new party, the Greek Left Alliance (ELAS), while the government has shifted decisively from dismissive commentary... that ELAS is not a continuation of SYRIZA. The “historic cycle” of his former party, he says, has
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Newsletter 511 - 03/07/2026
and, in PASOK’s case, even their identity. The latest polls published this week confirm that ELAS has..., while SYRIZA has collapsed to just 1% of the raw vote. The fragmentation of the centre‑left.... Tsipras has used this momentum to sharpen ELAS’s identity. In his first major television interview since
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Nightmare on Democracy Street
Agorathere. The attack took place on a road named after democracy – the very same democracy that has been pushed... for the ruptures now appearing in Greek society. Division has been at the heart of Greek history, dating back... disintegration has also torn apart its society and fragmented its political system. Now, though
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EU Task Force sees improvements in Greece, tends to damaged ties
PoliticsGreek Politicsperiod, the Task Force also highlights the technical assistance it has provided, such as training 500... to provide Greece with tangible help that goes some way to mending broken ties. The crisis has severely... level, a substantial amount of effort has been made to strengthen Greece’s relationship with the EU
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Newfound variety helps Greek winemakers enjoy exports boost
SocietyOne of the aims of Greece’s adjustment program has been to make the country more competitive, with a particular view towards boosting its exports. The main tool for this exercise has been the policy of internal devaluation, which has seen wages drop substantially. As a result, unit labour costs
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It's not the distance; it's the load you carry
AgoraIt is natural to attempt to instill some hope when one addresses a nation that has been battered by six years of the deepest recession in world history and has endured four years of unprecedented austerity. Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras often says that Greece has covered 80 percent
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Greece's ultimate sacrifice for stability
Agoraof double agent, giving Golden Dawn MPs harmless morsels in order to glean information from them. One has..., the man charged with leading Greece out of the crisis, arrives at his policy decisions. He has surrounded himself with advisers with whom he has a longstanding relationship. There is nothing strange
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