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Tussle over labour reforms shaping up as spark for broader political battle
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government’s proposed labour market reforms and the extent to which they open up ideological divisions and show whether New Democracy has a progressive vision for Greece’s future are the issues at the core of the country’s political debate at the moment. The ruling centre-right party
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Newsletter 340 - 03/06/2022
PoliticsTurkey tension resurfaces to dampen hope of quiet summerGreece’s tense relations... reacted angrily to Mitsotakis’s recent trip to Washington, where he suggested that the US should resist Turkey’s request for new fighter jets because of its troublesome attitude towards Greece
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Newsletter 381 - 19/05/2023
PoliticsPM looks well placed to win vote, forge ahead for majorityCampaigning for Sunday’s general... of the vote, compared to the left-wing opposition party’s 25.51 percent. Socialists PASOK follow with 8.79 percent, Communist Party KKE gets 6.02 percent, Yanis Varoufakis’s MeRA25 3.38 percent and ultra
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Dissent in ND ranks as SYRIZA leader struggles to find stable pattern
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Antonis Samaras, one of the current New Democracy leader’s predecessors as head of the centre-right party, gave an interview to Sunday’s Kathimerini in which he raised objections to several of the current government’s policies. Samaras, still an MP with the conservatives, suggested
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China-EU: Navigating an increasingly complex relationship
Agora. However, the EU’s trade deficit rose to a whopping €400 billion last year, which shows... to be addressed, such as China’s overcapacity in steel and electric vehicles that are rapidly inundating European markets, hefty subsidies and price distortion, Beijing’s preferential treatment of domestic
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Kasselakis ousts controversial MP, intensifying speculation about plans for SYRIZA
PoliticsGreek Politicsif this is a key juncture in the nascent leader’s efforts to gain full control of the opposition grouping or whether it is just another episode in the ongoing saga of the party’s existential crisis... Minister Adonis Georgiadis during a debate on Parliament over the government’s mental health bill
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Newsletter 433 - 20/09/2024
in Greece, partly due to SYRIZA’s ongoing collapse. A couple of opinion polls published this week placed... candidates vying for the centre-left party’s presidency, including incumbent Nikos Androulakis. His key... percentage points behind the 28.3 pct secured in this summer’s European Parliament elections. SYRIZA, which
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Newsletter 446 - 10/01/2025
’s popularity will have more to do with how it addresses the economic challenges that bogged it down... feel that their household’s financial situation has worsened compared to 2019, when the current government came to power. Just 18 pct feel that it has improved. Also, 46 pct believe Greece’s economic
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Newsletter 455 - 14/03/2025
that the Mitsotakis administration has dealt with Greece’s deadliest rail disaster. However, it appears that the casting of 157 out of 300 ballots in New Democracy’s favour did not mark the end of the matter. There is still Parliament’s preliminary judicial inquiry into the role of former deputy minister
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Amid publicity storm, Tsipras publishes 'Ithaca' and fuels speculation about new journey
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe much-trailed publication of Alexis Tsipras’s Ithaca has sent ripples through Greece’s political... politics, potentially as a unifier of the country’s progressive forces. At more than 750 pages, the former prime minister’s chronicle of his turbulent years in power aims to be both a reckoning
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