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Opposition set to back same-sex marriage bill, easing passage through Parliament
PoliticsGreek Politicsto legislation that would allow foreign universities to set up branches in Greece, sidestepping Article 16
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Rivalry between New Democracy and PASOK set for revival
PoliticsGreek PoliticsStefanos Kasselakis is set to launch his own party. When these numbers are projected into an election
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Our most popular stories in 2014
Agoraabout 500 million euros it cut from salaries in the armed forces and police. The details will only... it was unconstitutional to cut off taxpayers’ electricity if they did not pay. The only way of resolving this legal... manner in which Greek governments have taken decisions to meet the various targets they were set
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Independent Greeks to go it alone rather than join grand right-wing alliance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA few days after the prospect of an alliance between New Democracy and ultranationalist LAOS was floated, the possibility of even broader cooperation among right wing parties in Greece has been nipped in the bud. The anti-austerity Independent Greeks, l...
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Bond issue decision expected as clock ticks down
PoliticsGreek Politicsthen, on July 21, Parliament is due to vote on whether to set up an inquiry into Defence Minister... this affair. On Thursday, the conservatives criticised the coalition for failing to set up a sworn... in September 2015, when then-Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis asked local authorities to list
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Mitsotakis sworn in as prime minister as attention turns to Cabinet picks
PoliticsGreek PoliticsKyriakos Mitsotakis set about appointing the team to carry out his mandate to transform Greece... Staikouras looks set to head the Finance Ministry, where he held a more junior ministerial portfolio... Dendias are tipped to return to former posts at the Labour and Interior Ministries respectively
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Mitsotakis starts second term, prepares to name cabinet and launch reforms amid far-right rise
PoliticsGreek PoliticsParliament is set to be sworn in on July 3, followed by a three-day debate on the government’s policy... health minister, while Olga Kefaloyianni is set for a comeback as tourism minister, a position she has... with responsibility of overseeing the government’s role in Parliament. Former Interior Minister Makis Voridis
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The tarnished legacy that will haunt the Athens Olympics
AgoraGames was that they fitted into a broader pattern of the time, when the magnificence of the “grand.... The Athens Olympics arrived after euro entry, when austerity was set aside and purse strings were
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Snap elections in Greece: The scenarios ahead
PoliticsGreek PoliticsTo Potami, which looks set to be between the third and fifth largest party. As in the case..., option is a grand alliance between SYRIZA and New Democracy. As with PASOK, this would require
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Newsletter 11 - 16/01/2015
in any follow-up programme that the Greek authorities are set to negotiate with their European... than initially projected. Hence, one key condition of such a grand debt bargain has been achieved
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