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  1. Words will always hurt

    Agora

    this period. That’s why it was so appalling to hear Greece’s prime minister engage in this type... guilty of this kind of behaviour. However, as prime minister his responsibility is greater. His... Stournaras a “dealer” for the troika. On Friday, the leftists referred to the prime minister

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  2. Amid flare-up with PASOK, Tsipras makes plans to govern
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to set out – albeit sketchily – what he might do in his first 100 days as prime minister, should he.... The deputy prime minister accused the SYRIZA leader of trying to encourage an “apostasy... he was PASOK leader and Prime Minister, while Antonis Samaras, whose spokesman also slammed Tsipras

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  3. Omnibus bill passes but leaves marks on coalition and SYRIZA
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    lawmakers, had been expected to emerge victorious. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras had made it clear... two. PASOK leader and Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos was not so quick to make a decision... that he will take over as the Bank of Greece governor in May, although Prime Minister Antonis Samaras

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  4. Has SYRIZA's moment gone?
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    Agora

    . These weaknesses have been in evidence over the past couple of weeks. SYRIZA was presented with a prime opportunity to put pressure on the government and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras after cabinet secretary... it to demand an inquiry into whether the prime minister’s advisers were running Greece according

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  5. Greece's new finance minister lines up for a marathon (and several short sprints)

    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and it is not so surprising that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras should want to stick with a non-partisan..., although not decision-making, capacity. He was in charge of ex-Prime Minister Kostas Simitis’s... persistently above the 55-percent park. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras recently announced a very ambitious

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  6. Samaras buys some time with request for confidence vote
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Amid growing speculation that he would call early elections, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has... and Deputy Prime Minister Evangelos Venizelos. Going into the talks, the two options available..., essentially gives the prime minister a clear run for the next few months, putting thoughts of the government's

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  7. How Samaras backed himself and Greece into a corner over bailout exit
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    Agora

    The line coming out of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s office at the end of May was that New... further debt relief for Greece, which Samaras had held up as the government’s prime prize for the last... out of 300 votes. This led to the prime minister pivoting towards a new strategy: An early bailout

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  8. Samaras, Venizelos opt for earlier presidential vote in high-risk strategy to save coalition
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    later and the final round on December 29. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Deputy Prime Minister... of the candidate is not known but may be revealed as early as Tuesday by the prime minister. However, the nominee... nominee. It is highly unlikely that there will be an en masse move of these MPs to the government’s

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  9. Papandreou seeks new, undefined role on political centre stage in Greece

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    Former Prime Minister George Papandreou has added to the political turmoil in Greece by suggesting... relationship was compounded by Venizelos’s leading role in unseating Papandreou as prime minister... working with the prime minister who led Greece into its first memorandum of understanding with the troika.

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  10. The possible scenarios for avoiding snap elections in Greece
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    and the prime minister has insisted he will be the candidate in all three rounds. For this to change... himself to help the prime minister but there would have to be some kind of back up plan in place... the gap on the opposition party. PASOK seems more amenable to the idea of a compromise. Deputy Prime

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