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Newsletter 172 -27/07/2018
questioned The deadly wildfire in Mati, northeast of Athens, which claimed more than 80 lives has... of circumstances that they encountered, primarily due to the strong wind (around 100 km/hour), the effort... strong growth in May Having updated Greece’s credit rating ahead of schedule at the end of last
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Tsipras calls snap elections after heavy defeat that puts ND on course for clear majority
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe European Parliament vote by around 9 percentage points, which was a much wider margin than SYRIZA...). This gap of more than 9 points was at the outer edge of what opinion polls had indicated over the last... missed three key targets in these elections, which were to get more than 25 percent of the vote
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Topsy-turvy ride continues for Independent Greeks, as another MP goes
PoliticsGreek Politicsis significant in that it reduces Independent Greeks to just 17 seats, one fewer than Golden Dawn... TV cameras on Monday night flanked by all the party’s remaining MPs to emphasise that he has... proved more enduring than many had thought. This makes the part a potential coalition partner in a future
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DIMAR rules out coalition return but sees general elections on horizon
PoliticsGreek PoliticsAntonis Samaras and Deputy Premier Evangelos Venizelos, rather than their parties: New Democracy... there are serious ideological differences, rather than a disagreement over a particular policy... centre ground. A GPO poll for Mega TV on Monday night indicated that almost 43 percent of Greeks view
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Golden Dawn: Forgotten but not gone
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat the Neo-Nazis will perform poorly on Sunday. Apart from the TV coverage each party is entitled to during... Michaloliakos and several of its leading candidates were on TV regularly. The party has been pushed... percent of the vote, which was substantially higher than the 6.92 percent it got in the June 2012
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Newsletter 24 - 24/04/2015
that began this week. However, less than 1.5 hours later, in an interview with Star TV, Mardas said... to less than half of that amount. The government’s decision stems from the extremely tight liquidity... with Mega TV on Wednesday morning Alternate Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas said that the state has
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A misstep away from absurdity
AgoraTsipras bought himself some time and perhaps a little more acquiescence from Kammenos than seemed... to walk away when it emerged that in a TV interview in January he had referred to Greece’s.... Also, SYRIZA has maintained a much more conciliatory position on the name issue than other Greek
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Tsipras limits pledges and expectations in Thessaloniki
PoliticsGreek Politicssignificant pledge during Saturday’s speech was to use the 246 million euros raised in the TV permit... of pledges made was considerably lower than in years gone by. Tsipras, for instance, was not tempted... of the TV stations set to close as a result of the recent broadcasting permit auction. The reporter
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Government tries to limit damage from corruption claims but more tests lie ahead
PoliticsGreek Politicsa transparent and fair auction for TV licences, the Greek government has started to hit back against accusations... successful bidders for the TV permits. Speaking to Parapolitika radio, Pappas insisted that none... and Q4 would have to produce better results than expected. Q2 GDP was up by 0.2 percent
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Despite the drama, Kammenos proves reliable coalition partner for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicsthis week his predictable unpredictability as a governing mate. In a live interview with Ant-1 TV... protected. The ANEL leader, who is also the defence minister, confirmed this was the case in his TV... country as “Macedonia” rather than the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), touching another
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