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New frigate arrives to much fanfare as spotlight falls on Dendias, minister's aspirations
PoliticsGreek Politics. The ship’s appearance also put the spotlight on Defence Minister Nikos Dendias, one of the government... is one of the few areas where New Democracy’s ratings are still relatively buoyant. Georgiadis snipes.... During the conservatives’ time in power, he has consistently been one of the most popular ministers
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Poll upends opposition landscape and triggers fresh unrest in PASOK
PoliticsGreek Politics. The most arresting figure, however, is the one that does not correspond to any ballot paper. A full... who still place that hope in PASOK under Nikos Androulakis. One in five, meanwhile, say no party... existed for a Tsipras‑branded comeback seems to be ebbing. The broader political mood is one
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Predator ruling reopens scandal that government hoped had been buried
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOne of the scandals that has haunted Greece’s centre-right administration over the last few years...‑agenda debate in Parliament and a fresh request for a parliamentary inquiry, arguing the previous one... what SYRIZA “denounced from day one”: that Predator and EYP were not parallel systems but parts
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Government draws line between solidarity for Cyprus and involvement in Iran conflict
PoliticsGreek Politicsin the broader Middle East conflict. The message that Greece stands by Cyprus is one which simultaneously.... On Tuesday, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis told PASOK president Nikos Androulakis in a one-to-one briefing... in Cyprus during the Persian Wars, after whom one of the frigates is named – and honoured the memory
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Newsletter 497 - 06/03/2026
command structure is fragmented, its proxies are acting autonomously, and no one can reliably predict..., offering instead one‑to‑one briefings — a choice that fuels suspicion that Mitsotakis wants to retain tight... increase non‑performing loans and force more cautious dividend strategies. One week into the conflict
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Kammenos calls for lynching of mayor but ends up boxing himself into a corner
PoliticsGreek Politicsprobe was announced, Kammenos said he was encouraging a “political lynching” not a physical one... Golden Dawn. Flirting with SYRIZA on the one hand and being compared with Golden Dawn on the other... is seeking to achieve. It seems there are rough seas ahead for the one-time Deputy Merchant Marine
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Consensus, conviction and the anti-racism bill
Agoraand policies” is particularly apt. There is, however, one thing that Samaras did not abandon, which... blows. A surge for far-right Golden Dawn is of particular concern to government officials. One... after all. One of the reasons she despised consensus was because she viewed it as “the process
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Honey, I shrunk the Greeks
Agoraby one of the many middle-aged ladies that were handing out surgical masks and asked us if we wanted..., this view that now represents the official assessment and position of one of the troika’s members was demonized and ridiculed as conspiratorial in spite of the fact that one never needed to look further than
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Coalition unwound
AgoraPrime Minister Antonis Samaras marked one year in the job on Friday by becoming the leader of what... one of its most turbulent patches in modern history. Having secured a form of stability over... Reformer: albeit one whose government has failed to make any decisive changes in the economy, public
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Is VAT all you've got?
Agora. The government hopes the VAT cut will boost one of the biggest employers in Greece’s all-important... of attracting more customers. One imagines that an agreement earlier this year, which could have been... Ministry, that the focus on the VAT in just one sector masks a much more serious economic problem
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