SYRIZA administration
Mitsotakis: New elections if there's no outright majority
The leader of center-right New Democracy (ND) Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated on Wednesday his intention to call a re-run of the general elections if his party is not able to secure an outright majority on July 7.
‘Progress’ and progress
We hear it again as a slogan: Will we move toward the future or the past? In a country where public policies continuously change, the past may sometimes be more progressive.
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Crunch time for PPC
The SYRIZA administration, which is nearing the completion of its term, could be summed up with the developments at Greece's Public Power Corporation. The country's biggest business is being kept on life support until the general election so that the next government will have to deal with its rescue.
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Zaev not worried over prospect of political changeover in Greece
Neither Skopje nor Athens would benefit from reopening issues that have already been resolved, North Macedonia Prime Minister Zoran Zaev has said about the potential impact of a conservative election victory in Greece on the so-called Prespes accord.
Greece expected to miss primary surplus target this year, says BoG governor
Greece could miss a primary surplus target agreed with its lenders this year, its central bank chief said on Tuesday, less than a week after the European Commission expressed misgivings over tax breaks announced by the outgoing government.
Permanent damage
Powered by momentum, the SYRIZA administration is behaving as if it still enjoys broad political legitimacy.
The incumbent leftists are acting as if the European Parliament election, which they too interpreted as the sweeping away of their mandate, never took place.
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Parliament approves tax breaks, pension bonus
Greek lawmakers on Wednesday approved tax breaks and bonuses for pensioners in the crisis-hit nation days before elections, rowing back some austerity mandated by international bailouts.
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Lawmakers debate tax breaks, vote on Wednesday
Greek lawmakers on Tuesday debated new tax breaks proposed by the leftist Syriza administration, seeking to reverse some of the austerity imposed during years of international bailouts.
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Revealing gesture
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras tried to justify the controversial statements by Pavlos Polakis about a wheelchair-bound New Democracy MEP candidate by depicting his alternate health minister as an "abrupt" Cretan whose behavior should be put up with.
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Country at a standstill
The timing of Tuesday's disagreement between Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Deputy Labor Minister Tasos Petropoulos over whether the leftist government plans to pay a one-off benefit to public sector workers and pensioners in the form of an Easter bonus was not incidental.
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