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Mitsotakis shrugs off scandals to hit back at foreign policy critics
PoliticsGreek Politicshis administration in recent weeks. Mitsotakis gave a lengthy interview to Skai TV on Wednesday, much... with Libya, Mitsotakis reiterated his government’s position that the Turkey-Libya maritime agreement... the rival factions in Libya, allowing Libya to press territorial claims with backing from Ankara
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Merkel backing for name deal overshadowed by coalition leaders' crucial talks
PoliticsGreek Politicsher view on the name deal, which she described as being good for both parties, as well as Europe... Minister Panos Kammenos, who leads the junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL..., especially if he does not have any support from ANEL MPs. SYRIZA currently has 145 lawmakers
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Newsletter 182 -9/11/2018
for SYRIZA and ANEL lawmakers as the coalition plans to follow this up with other measures promised by Prime... as the government aims to make good on the pledges that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras unveiled... raised by the joint fund. In a TV interview on Thursday, Tsipras said that the state would be able
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Mistaking tolerance for a free rein
Agorafor the European Commission. Also, 60 percent of Greeks think the euro is good for their country. However... the then junior coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) a few years earlier. His public admission... were just as bad, or worse. In the wake of the scandal, footage emerged of a TV interview
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In tight election race, rare TV debate carries element of unknown
PoliticsGreek Politics. A Pulse poll for Action 24 TV on Tuesday was the latest to indicate that the situation remains very
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New Democracy seeks higher ground in escalating TV permits row
PoliticsGreek PoliticsA new chapter in the ongoing saga relating to Greece’s TV licences is due to be written this week, with the government hoping to recover from the blow dealt by the Council of State and New Democracy hoping to inflict further damage on the coalition. A new cross-party attempt to appoint a board
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Greek parties face fine balance as they discuss name issue
PoliticsGreek Politicshas caused some tension between SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL), with ministers and MPs... against the backdrop of the political concerns felt by Tsipras, Mitsotakis and Kammenos. Tsipras...), but on the borderline of clear parliamentary majority, and ANEL on 2 percent, 1 point short of the threshold
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Newsletter 40 - 28/08/2015
will this damage SYRIZA? Will coalition partner Independent Greeks (ANEL) make it into Parliament? Will SYRIZA and ANEL have enough seats to continue their coalition? Will PASOK pass the 3 percent threshold... the last few weeks. The polls also raise doubts about whether ANEL would enter Parliament
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Despite the drama, Kammenos proves reliable coalition partner for Tsipras
PoliticsGreek Politicsprotected. The ANEL leader, who is also the defence minister, confirmed this was the case in his TV...Alexis Tsipras’s coalition partner, Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader Panos Kammenos, proved again this week his predictable unpredictability as a governing mate. In a live interview with Ant-1 TV
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Tsipras and Kammenos set aside speculation and focus on coalition's key goals
PoliticsGreek Politics’s office to insist, as he has done before, that SYRIZA and Independent Greeks (ANEL) will remain... prominent issues. The ANEL leader dismissed the claims of a rift, saying it was the work of “those who..., the prospect of any party jumping into government with SYRIZA if ANEL decides it has had enough
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