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Govt mulls more freedoms for vaccinated, while arrest highlights evolving far-right networks
PoliticsGreek Politics, Zaoutis said that one of his top priorities would be to keep the public better informed of the course... in an apparently organised assault on members of an anti-racism group, one of the attackers who was identified... vaccination. The man was identified as a member of the ultra-nationalist ProPatria group, one of several
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Newsletter 316 - 12/11/2021
and Control (ECDC), Greece has one of the highest Covid death rates in the EU. The ECDC places Greece... overall, this is one of the largest, if not the largest, month-on-month decline that ND has seen since... roughly one in four New Democracy supporters.EconomyMore new data suggests economy is healingFinance
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Newsletter 332 - 18/03/2022
are also set to receive a one-off bonus payment in the lead-up to Easter. The government will also... and will double the energy subsidies for businesses, as well as making a one-off payment to taxi... if one factors in the prospect of extending it into 2023, Greece has built up a cumulative deficit
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Mitsotakis sweeps aside election talk as ND continues to suffer in polls
PoliticsGreek Politicsby one party or more than one party,” said Mitsotakis, adding that the goal is to achieve stability rather than a governing majority for one party. Although this may have just been a matter-of-fact comment..., possibly forcing Mitsotakis to bring them into his party. However, there is a possibility that one
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Govt eyes own energy package if EU fails to approve joint action
PoliticsGreek Politicsreported on Saturday that one of the options being mulled by government officials is to hold snap... still need at least one coalition partner. The obvious candidate would be centre-left KINAL, which... stability is a more important target than electing a one-party government. This was seen as, on one
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ND struggles to shift spotlight away from wiretapping fallout
PoliticsGreek Politics. The conservatives’ attempts to shift the focus onto other matters was undermined on Thursday by one..., a former leading judge and one-time justice minister, to stoke conspiracy theories and play... underlined that achieving the end of the post-programme monitoring regime had been one of the government’s
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PM brushes aside spying scandal, lowers expectations for handouts
PoliticsGreek PoliticsInternational Fair (TIF). This was one of the main messages to emerge from the meeting as Mitsotakis told... was under the aegis of the Prime Minister’s office, was spying on one of Mitsotakis’s main rival... officials feel it would be wise for Mitsotakis to change the electoral law again, overriding the one his
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Newsletter 349 - 02/09/2022
Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, but enough of one to diminish his and his party’s hopes.... A total of 142 opposition MPs voted for the centre-left party’s motion (one was absent). Only 120... that he is due to announce in a few days at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF). This was one
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Tailor-made Maastricht criteria for Greece?
Agora, while the stock of debt should not exceed 60 percent of GDP. One of the first violations... numbers are based on “ongoing” fiscal operations, not including such one-time effects. Such an unusual...). In the multiple discussions on reforming the Maastricht Criteria, one guideline that almost all analysts
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Turkey's new Libya MoU prompts swift reaction from Athens, which mulls further moves
PoliticsForeign Policyand Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, the leader of one of two competing governments in divided Libya. He said.... “No one can ignore geography. No one can create a virtual world.” Shukry said that Dbeibah’s..., commenting on the Turkey-Libya memorandum. He also said that one of the principles of international law
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