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Newsletter 443 - 29/11/2024
PoliticsSYRIZA elects new leader amid political fragmentationSYRIZA followed in PASOK’s recent... landscape. After months of acrimony, SYRIZA elected Sokratis Famellos, the party’s former... in the first round of the socialist party’s recent leadership ballot. It is also notable
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PM emerges wounded from confidence vote as Konstantopoulou boosts ratings
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFriday’s confidence vote culminated in 157 MPs backing the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos.... Mitsotakis delivered a combative speech ahead of Friday evening’s ballot, insisting that he has no intention... failings in Greece’s public sector. He pledged that his government would try to address these at a faster
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Despite foreign policy concerns, New Democracy builds poll lead as opponents falter
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe economic effects of the conflict in the Middle East, New Democracy’s ratings continue to recover. However, SYRIZA’s recent party conference appears to have failed to halt the leftists’ slide to the fringes... regarding foreign policy issues. In terms of Greece’s relations with Turkey, 50 pct of respondents said
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Newsletter 474 - 05/09/2025
a sweeping package of tax cuts and reforms, aimed at reversing New Democracy’s slide in the polls... that secured ND’s electoral victories in 2019 and 2023. Several new initiatives have been rolled out... political gamble — trading part of its hard-won surplus for renewed public trust as ND’s popularity
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PM under fire for foreign policy handling after Erdogan snub
PoliticsGreek Politicssee Erdogan’s prominent position at the gathering as a sign that Athens is losing the diplomatic.... On Wednesday, the Greek side said it would be impossible to fit a rescheduled meeting into Mitsotakis’s... annoyed at Athens’s decision to publicise the meeting in advance. The PM’s office, meanwhile, has
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Newsletter 481 - 24/10/2025
protests at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has stirred controversy within Greece’s ruling party... responsibility for the site’s upkeep from the City of Athens to the Ministry of Defence. Prime Minister Kyriakos... viewed recent protests at the site as disrespectful to Greece’s war dead. But the timing and intent
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PM hopes energy, US deals offer political lifeline as Samaras drags him towards domestic mire
PoliticsGreek Politics. The centrepiece of last week’s developments was a landmark offshore gas exploration deal signed with ExxonMobil... Cooperation (P-TEC) forum in Athens, the agreement marks Greece’s first exploratory drilling in nearly... artery of Eastern Europe,” a tool for “energy and geopolitical security” and a reward for Greece’s
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Newsletter 491 - 23/01/2026
Trump. Recent developments, including Trump’s comments about wanting to acquire Greenland, have put... President’s favour and find ways to bolster ties with Washington over the last year. With EU–US... a bruising month during which his hesitant response to Nicolás Maduro’s capture exposed deep fissures
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ND mounts counter‑offensive after PASOK congress but keeps focus on inflation
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe political temperature rose sharply in the aftermath of PASOK’s congress, with New Democracy launching a coordinated counter‑offensive aimed at undermining the party’s renewed sense of unity... as evasive and strategically incoherent. The attack was not limited to alliances. Marinakis dismissed PASOK’s
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Omnibus bill passes but leaves marks on coalition and SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s coalition succeeded in passing on Sunday an omnibus bill of reforms demanded by the troika... that the government’s strategy for the next few months depended on getting this legislation approved... towards further debt relief for Greece. This approach is also vital to New Democracy and PASOK’s
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