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Government's foreign policy under scrutiny again following actions by Egypt and Turkey
PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment’s foreign policy as overly cautious and lacking assertiveness. However, recent developments involving Egypt and Turkey have once again placed Athens’s diplomatic strategy under the spotlight. Egypt’s government recently delivered a diplomatic note on July 8 challenging Greece’s newly
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Revival of Mitsotakis-Tsipras rivalry points to future developments on political scene
PoliticsGreek Politicsemerged from this weekend’s events with the aura of being one of current Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s... International Fair by PM Mitsotakis on Saturday. Tsipras’s appearance prompted a response from Mitsotakis... served as Greece’s PM. By far the most significant damage was done during the first six months
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PM focusses on long game as opposition faces crucial period
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe centre-right party’s lacklustre opinion poll numbers. At the sidelines of a leaders’ debate in Parliament, Mitsotakis met with some of his party’s lawmakers and assured them that the next national elections would not be held before March 2027. This is in keeping with the PM’s public statements that he
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Tsipras takes stage for launch of book and would-be political manifesto
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTsipras’s enduring ability to mobilise an audience, even after stepping away from frontline politics..., with the former prime minister’s presence interpreted as a dynamic return to the public sphere..., Tsipras sought to frame today’s challenges as systemic, requiring not just policy adjustments
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Newsletter 494 - 13/02/2026
with the Prime Minister’s constitutional revision proposal, PASOK wrestling with its own identity, and the government still firefighting on multiple fronts. The centrepiece of Mitsotakis’s strategy... to the pressures of artificial intelligence, climate change and geopolitical volatility. The government’s package
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Newsletter 14 - 06/02/2015
to 10 billion euros of T-Bills to cover Greece’s short-term funding needs, carrying... Minister Yanis Varoufakis in Paris, London, Rome, Frankfurt and Berlin, the government’s focus has..., is the commitment to achieving primary balanced budgets. However, in the aftermath of last week’s
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Will the real men of unity please stand up?
Agoraphoto shoot for the College of Commissioners in Brussels. After all, the Greek government’s... 25 elections, pointed to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s lack of neckwear as soon as he arrived... a tie when he visited Rome, remarking that the Greek leader had promised to wear one when Greece’s
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Newsletter 37 - 31/07/2015
Representatives of Greece’s lenders began their meetings with government ministers in Athens on Friday... for the IMF’s participation were discussed in a recent board meeting. As the Financial Times reported... and the country’s high debt levels, the fund should be cautious about its involvement in the new programme
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Newsletter 67 - 18/03/2016
probably be lower than the government’s proposed 384 euros. In addition, compared to the initial... Refugee crisis threatens to morph into multi-front challenge The government’s struggle to remain... attempted to cross Greece’s border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Monday, only
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Newsletter 89 - 23/09/2016
to be rocking for the first time since last summer’s political drama that led to banks closing... Stournaras over Attica Bank have put the government’s survival in question. A number of reports point... Bank’s Single Supervisory Mechanism. The central bank’s report is due to be The government may
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