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Support finely balanced as coalition enters make or break December
PoliticsGreek Politicsa narrow lead over SYRIZA and one poll put the leftists ahead. A Kapa Research poll in Sunday’s To Vima... less comfortable reading for the coalition parties. A poll by Marc for Ependitis newspaper put... for the government, there were no such positives to take from Marc’s findings. The same polling company had put
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Challenges mount for Tsipras as pension reform leads into make or break period
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor Parapolitika weekly put the conservatives comfortably even further ahead of the leftists (23.6.... The greater concern for the government must be that the proposals it has put forward seek to keep reductions... and would seriously damage Tsipras’s credibility. Mitsotakis has promised that New Democracy will put
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Newsletter 19 - 13/03/2015
of wrangling, technical talks between the new Greek government and its lenders began this week, with the various sides aiming to reach agreement on a package of reforms by Easter. In a break with previous... estimates put this amount at 10 to 11 billion euros in today’s money. In today’s discussions about
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Newsletter 171 -20/07/2018
is key to Tsipras's election planning. If the intervention is put off or counter-balanced... is that the minimum the government will agree with the creditors is for the cuts to be put off for six... rather than making a break from the past. This argument will seem much less convincing if Tsipras
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Greece grapples with second Covid-19 wave as cases soar
Societyimplemented which kept community transmissions at bay and Greece began to ease itself out of lockdown... followed. On May 25 when these measures were put in place, Greece had 2,882 cases and 172 deaths... to jump from 7,000 to 8,000 cumulative cases. Authorities acted to put new restrictions in place
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Scars for coalition, questions for SYRIZA after confidence vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsand sometimes vitriolic debate, helped the leftists or anyone else. The debate, which began on Friday.... It is clear that the leftist party believes Venizelos is the weakest link in the coalition and will not let up in its efforts to put pressure on him. However, SYRIZA would have hoped to get more out of its
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Newsletter 40 - 28/08/2015
The election race officially began on Friday, with a number of twists and turns expected until Greeks go... with the “establishment” parties, as he put it, he would not be the prime minister of such an administration... funding and limit the link between the banks and the state”. Greek banks’ DTA stood at 15.6 billion
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Newsletter 360 - 25/11/2022
PoliticsPoll pressure from surveillance yet to materialiseAlthough the week began with more.... Significantly, the report drew a clear link between the state, in this case the police, and the use... of revelations related to the surveillance scandal that has raised tensions and has put the Mitsotakis
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Tax chief's departure brings coalition revenue plans under scrutiny
PoliticsGreek Politics. The government’s decision to force Theoharis out as it prepares for a cabinet reshuffle has put... euros. #Greece new unpaid taxes at €763 mln in Apr (from €1.21 bln in Mar) & at €4.33 bln year
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Holding out for a (reformist) hero
Agoraabroad. However, his relationship with European counterparts did not break down irreparably until 31... percent), which means that around 175,000 people voted for him. To put it into perspective... years after its economic crisis began, remains saddled with an unsustainable public debt and continues
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