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Tsipras ramps up fiscal pledges as elections draw closer
PoliticsGreek Politicselections later this year. The SYRIZA leader suggested in a TV interview on Tuesday and a radio... it is a pension payment, rather than a benefit, under law taxes and contributions have to be withheld. He... of SYRIZA going into Sunday’s European elections. A survey conducted by Alco for Open TV indicated
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New Democracy faces fresh turmoil after ousting MP
PoliticsGreek Politicsand Participations (HCAP), rather than his department. The opposition also highlighted that according... to local TV on Wednesday to defend himself, arguing that ND was aware of his professional activities... practices. This issue was highlighted by SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras in a TV interview on Tuesday
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SYRIZA tries to pin Mitsotakis down over phonetapping
PoliticsGreek Politicspublished a list of more than 30 public figures who were allegedly targeted by the Predator spyware. Mitsotakis set the tone with a TV interview on Monday, during which he accused SYRIZA of working... taking place in Greece. It was Tsipras’s turn on Thursday to take to national TV. During his interview
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Leaders gear up for debate as ND maintains opinion poll lead
PoliticsGreek Politics, prevent the opposition from being able to form the next government. The TV debate was agreed... better than the PM, who has a tendency to appear stiff in some exchanges. However, ND has... by challenging his rivals, especially since they will all be in the TV studio with him, to explain
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Mitsotakis tempers expectations for EP vote, Kasselakis talks up prospects
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn an extensive TV interview on Thursday night, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis set the bar... achieved in the EP vote five years ago. Speaking to Skai TV, he said that the yardstick for measuring the government’s performance should be the 2019 results (rather than last year’s national elections
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Newsletter 11 - 16/01/2015
policies. A Pulse poll for Action 24 TV put SYRIZA on 30 percent and New Democracy 27 percent.... A Macedonia University poll for Skai TV suggested SYRIZA’s lead over the conservatives had not changed over... surplus is now seen at 1.5 percent of GDP, in line with the EAP target, yet slightly lower than
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High Covid-19 death rate leads to lockdown extension but fails to dampen vaccine scepticism
PoliticsGreek Politicsdeaths were reported, taking the total to more than 2,000 and adding to the terrible run in Greece over November, which has accounted for more than half of all deaths in Greece since the pandemic struck. More than 600 people are being treated in ICU units and the lack of beds in northern Greece means
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Newsletter 443 - 29/11/2024
, especially as more than 10,000 new members reportedly signed up for the process. However, it should... that the turnout on Sunday was less than half the 148,821 SYRIZA members that took part in the party’s leadership... to do with personalities and processes, rather than actual politics. An Interview poll
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Newsletter 417 - 22/03/2024
by the Interior Ministry, a Greek prosecutor and the country's data protection authority, while several... the upcoming European Parliament elections, and the resignations of a senior Interior Ministry official... that the email list was leaked from the Interior Ministry during the tenure of the caretaker government
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PM makes limited, cautious changes to cabinet after election disappointment
PoliticsGreek Politicsat ministerial level in five departments: Development, Migration, Interior, Labour and Agricultural... as Interior Minister. Kostas Tsiaras, once a justice minister under Mitsotakis, becomes the new agriculture minister. Niki Kerameus is being moved from the Interior Ministry to the Labour Ministry
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