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Newsletter 323 - 14/01/2022
is more of a political threat to New Democracy than Covid, as things stand. Last weekend’s newspapers... Greece’s vaccination programme a success, noting that 82 pct of adults have now been vaccinated... governing party in first place with 33.2 pct, ahead of the left-wing opposition’s 22.3 pct. Support
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PM pledges more support as he seeks to resist inflation, pandemic threats
PoliticsGreek Politicsalso stressed that he does not want to put this year’s budget execution at risk and that any support... by the government’s economic plan as Greece tries to work its way back to a primary surplus next year... that this year’s tourism season will likely begin in March and that the revenues earned from visitors this year
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Opposition lambasts Mitsotakis over support package, accuses PM of election scaremongering
PoliticsGreek Politicshe set out his government’s economic policies for the coming months. Speaking to Athens radio 9.84 FM... and increasingly high running costs, none of which were addressed by the measures. The tone of Mitsotakis’s... monarch” far removed from the average citizen. The criticism was echoed by PASOK-KINAL’s press
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Seasonal worries add to pressure on govt as opposition highlights holiday costs, hospital staffing
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe PM’s office is on edge about the first opinion polls after the summer recess, as the government... post on Sunday, Kyriakos Mitsotakis took stock of the government’s accomplishments in the year.... Mitsotakis’s fondness for setting quantitative targets has been lent some urgency by the growing
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Draft budget contains two scenarios on pensions, charts course within agreed fiscal targets
EconomyMacroeconomyThe Finance Ministry (MoF) tabled on Monday afternoon in Parliament’s Economic Affairs Committee..., although Greece is now under the European Commission’s enhanced surveillance framework following... the country’s macroeconomic projections and to monitor the compliance with fiscal rules
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Mistaking tolerance for a free rein
Agorafor New Democracy’s victory, but perhaps the most significant was the desire of enough Greeks to move... of understanding with the country’s lenders caused the crisis, or whether the MoU was made necessary by the crisis, 47 percent said that the bailout was to blame for Greece’s woes. By October
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Additional public health, economic actions to counter coronavirus impact
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe end of March. His intervention came after the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod issued an equivocal... University professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases who is acting as the Public Health Organisation’s.... Mitsotakis’s decision drew plaudits from some commentators who had grown increasingly worried about
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Roadmap leading out of lockdown pondered by ND as SYRIZA takes aim at media
PoliticsGreek Politicsdisappear. Mitsotakis’s task is made slightly easier by the fact that there is no great pressure... being afforded to opposition politicians during the lockdown. In the letter, the party’s spokesman... conference held by SYRIZA and its leader Alexis Tsipras to present the party’s counter-proposal
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Government claims tourism season a major success, opposition begs to differ
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s best years for tourism arrivals since 2019, before the pandemic, is being viewed... last June. Kikilias attributed this rise to the government’s tourism strategy and agreements... that the government’s aim is for this year’s tourism season to run until December. He hopes to achieve
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After support package, government turns attention to "everyday" issues
PoliticsGreek Politicsis focussing on a series of initiatives aimed at improving citizen’s everyday lives by tackling... the positive momentum from last week’s mini-support package. These are areas where New Democracy feels... expressed in recent polls. Earlier this week, the PM’s office unveiled a national strategy to combat
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