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Tsipras fends off election rumours, Mitsotakis talks up moderate qualities
PoliticsGreek Politicsofficials it is thought, who prefer for the vote to be put off until next year so that the economy has more... tried to shrug off claims that he had allowed the right wing of his party to steer New Democracy
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Mitsotakis brushes off latest strike, opposition sides with protesters
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe government shrugged off Wednesday’s strike – the second in as many weeks – as the action of a small group of unionists rather than a larger protest against its proposed labour reforms. Although... of the diaspora vote would go towards New Democracy, killing off any chance that the leftists would
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MEP takes comfortable lead over former PM in advance of KINAL leadership run-off
PoliticsGreek Politics, faces former PM George Panandreou in the run-off on Sunday. The MEP gained 99,120 votes in the first... Androulakis as the favourite to win Sunday’s run-off by 16 points. An estimated 56.5 pct
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Dendias's Libya tangle cuts off Athens-Tripoli communication
PoliticsForeign PolicyMinistry issued a strong statement underlining that “the Greek minister refused to get off his plane... been closed off, especially following the decision of Libya’s Foreign Ministry to recall its
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Mitsotakis shrugs off scandals to hit back at foreign policy critics
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIn his parting shot just before the summer recess, PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis turned fire on his predecessors’ foreign policy record, while brushing off the accusations of corruption that have engulfed... by backing off offshore projects, the most emblematic of which is the Greece-Cyprus interconnector
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Newsletter 251 -22/05/2020
-bills (-1.6 million) and special purpose and bilateral loans (-9.9 million) FSM loans continue to make... that is notable for its absence from the government package. An opinion poll by MRB for Star Channel showed New
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Greece in danger of repeating familiar mistakes with Golden Dawn
AgoraDawn could be scrubbed off the Greek political map overnight. The reasons for the party’s rise and the make-up of its supporters suggest that if Golden Dawn was to disappear, something else would spring..., wean them off Golden Dawn’s poisonous populism. Can anyone do it? So far, the answer has been
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Local elections in Greece a precursor of European vote
PoliticsGreek Politics. If not, then the two leading candidates go into a run-off vote the following Sunday. The second... has been organised by local officials and opponents of the sell-off, a significant rejection... irrelevant to what happens on the national political scene. Apart from anything else, coming a week
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Newsletter 48 - 23/10/2015
their children to private schools are “well off” and can afford the extra cost. Fees at private schools... off for Tsipras? Because to a lesser or greater extent, the failure of these three ex-prime ministers... online, but little else emerged as his administration’s drive also stalled before it drifted
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Macedonia and other Greek words
Agorathe future is extremely high and the economy has yet to take off. This creates a climate of mistrust... and his colleagues were attacked by nationalists in Skopje last year) and to ward off Russian... of someone else coveting their land, being uprooted and losing what they have. The current context must
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