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  1. ND braces for rural backlash to OPEKEPE scandal as law and order initiatives take centre stage

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    struggled to hang on to conservative voters alienated by socially liberal policies implemented earlier

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  2. Holding out for a (reformist) hero
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    Agora

    Since the start of the Greek crisis, many international commentators (as well as locals) have been holding out hope that a reformist white knight would emerge from the political morass and ride to Greece’s rescue. Reality, though, has been equally consistent in shattering their illusions

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  3. Newsletter 64 - 26/02/2016

    Newsletters

    of the government. Tsipras has proposed holding a meeting of party leaders’ before he heads to the crucial March 7... and social conflict is much larger. As symbols go, the imaginary pig’s head in William Golding’s Lord

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  4. Kammenos's odd partnership with Tsipras still holding together
    Photo by Panayiotis Tzamaros/Fosphotos

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Defence Minister Panos Kammenos was re-elected as leader of SYRIZA’s coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) over the weekend, while also managing to highlight the odd nature of the cooperation between the two parties. There had been reports that Ka...

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  5. Greece, creditors seek progress at Eurogroup on key differences holding up review
    Photo via Fosphotos

    EconomyProgramme

    Greece and its lenders head into Monday’s Eurogroup with differences on several key issues that will have to be resolved if the second review is to conclude in the days ahead. The Greek ministers and the institutions’ mission chiefs held a lengthy telec...

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  6. Greece braces for Middle East fallout as polls show ND holding firm despite voter unease
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    New Democracy enters this new phase of the Middle East crisis with a solid polling advantage but a visibly unsettled electorate. Two fresh surveys place the governing party at 31.1 pct in their vote‑estimate models but they also reveal overwhelming publ...

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  7. The refugee crisis and the beast within
    Photo via Human Rights Watch https://www.hrw.org/

    Agora

    As symbols go, the imaginary pig’s head in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies requires little explanation. Its meaning is summed up in one line of the unnerving classic. “Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill!” says the fly-infested head. “You knew, didn’t you? I’m part

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  8. PPC general meeting approves unbundling of ADMIE

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    agenda was the establishment of a holding company, the transfer of a 51 percent stake in ADMIE..., provision of guarantees from the holding company (Energiaki Holding SA) and assignment of existing... to the holding company stands at 491.84 million euros and this amount would constitute the share capital

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  9. Government seeks to appease banks over ADMIE privatisation

    EconomyMacroeconomy

    from PPC, the establishment of a holding company, PPC transferring to that company a 51 percent stake... general meeting (EGM) on January 12 to approve the establishment of a holding company, the transfer... in ADMIE that is due to be transferred to the holding company. According to the study, the medium

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  10. Coalition not ditching referendum idea from policy options but details muddled

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    As much as it tries, the Greek government cannot escape the issue of if it will consider holding... holding a referendum on whatever is agreed by June “would not be a bad idea” as it would ensure... creditors would be willing to accept. In 2011, when George Papandreou suggested holding a vote

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