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Strong showing in local elections for ND as it targets majority in national vote
PoliticsGreek Politicsa sidekick to SYRIZA. Several officials loyal to Venizelos, who has been an MP since 1989, also announced.... Gennimata has been accused by some critics of adopting “equal distances” between the two main parties... Samaras between 2012 and 2015. There has been speculation that the split between KINAL and Venizelos
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Mitsotakis sets goals for first days in office after July 7 elections
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat there has to be a “strong hand on the wheel” if the country is going to change quickly... Movement for Change (KINAL) has already indicated it might back such a move but the two parties’ votes... doused speculation that he would take a cabinet post, along with the premiership. There has been
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Mitsotakis earns space to govern with big win, Tsipras limits damage
PoliticsGreek Politicsand the clear majority means that Mitsotakis has won the political space he needs to implement his programme... break. Mitsotakis has also pledged that the hiring of 1,500 extra police officers and the signing... that Tsipras’s leadership of the party will not be challenged. In fact, he has a strong base to work from
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Mitsotakis in Berlin with limited expectations
PoliticsGreek Politicscapitals for the new Prime Minister, in the course of which the government’s narrative has shifted... stressed that the government accepts the commitments that the country has entered.... There has been positive news recently with the decision to lift capital controls, improved revenues
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New pension system, lower primary surpluses among govt targets for 2020
PoliticsGreek Politicsto get 2020 off to a smooth and convincing start. Given that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has been out of Athens with his family over the past few days, much of the political focus has been... medium-term fiscal plan has to be drafted. The Greek side is hoping it can convince the European
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EU funds seen as cushioning Covid-19 impact, giving govt fiscal space
PoliticsGreek PoliticsCommission’s plan for a Covid-19 recovery fund and has indicated to the local media that the funds available will more than make up for the damage the pandemic has inflicted on the Greek economy.... The sector towards which much of the attention has turned is tourism, after the government announced
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Budget passed as govt pins hopes on vaccine rollout to get economy on track
PoliticsGreek Politicsargued that although the EU has not adopted sanctions against Ankara, pressure on Greece’s neighbour...) and stressed that “a threat will linger” until 60 pct of the population has received the vaccine. Health... they can be stored in normal fridges for up to a few hours. The government has also been making it clear
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Protests and policing shake up political agenda as early election scenarios resurface
PoliticsGreek Politicsin Parliament on Friday has seen new battle lines drawn around the “law and order” agenda, which... the blame for instigating civil unrest on SYRIZA. SYRIZA, meanwhile, has sensed an opportunity... a confrontational approach to policing. The party has not overtly endorsed the call for neighbourhood
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PM mulls more assistance with energy costs through winter
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the coming weeks. Heating oil went on sale a few days ago and the government has shown since... of year, underlining the importance that Mitsotakis has attached to keeping household bills under..., will be known by then. Also, the Finance Ministry, which already has 1 billion euros set aside for any
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Tsipras targets PM, looking to gain traction from scandals
PoliticsGreek Politicsactivities. Tsipras also noted that SYRIZA has been asking questions in Parliament about Patsis’s.... The opposition politician, who claimed that as much as 7.5 billion euros worth of business has been..., who also owns Olympiakos football club. Tsipras underlined that he has submitted a question
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