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PM appoints new national security advisor as talks with Turkey hang in balance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Tuesday the appointment of Thanos Dokos to the post of national security advisor, with a mandate to formulate national security strategy and build the National Security Council, a new body created by the p...
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Greece prepares for next stage in Covid relaxation as tourism hopes hang in balance
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe next steps in Greece’s gradual emergence from a six-month lockdown are set to be confirmed on Wednesday, although Covid-19 numbers have eased only marginally and there are doubts about the tourism sector’s ability to capitalise on the official reope...
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Implementation snags hang over ambitious post-Covid recovery plans
PoliticsGreek PoliticsGreece’s national plan to allocate EU Recovery & Resilience funds is moving apace at the planning stage, but appears to be stumbling at implementation. With the post-covid stimulus package emerging as more key to economic recovery than ever in light of ...
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New Greek cabinet a mixed bag, prompting hope and concern
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PoliticsGreek Politicsgovernment, to fill this position. His portfolio falls under an expanded Interior Ministry that will be led by Nikos Voutsis. Giorgos Katrougalos, a law professor who was elected as an MEP with SYRIZA last May, will be in charge of administrative reform. Another law professor, Nikos Paraskevopoulos, has
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Tsipras keeps bailout issues in safe hands but fails to inspire with new cabinet
PoliticsGreek Politicsand academic Nikos Kotzias also remains as foreign minister, while there is no change at the Justice Ministry, where Nikos Paraskevopoulos will continue. Tsipras, however, has scrapped the special... as health minister. His predecessor, Panayiotis Kouroublis, was moved across to the Interior Ministry
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Tsipras freshens up cabinet, looking for balance with party and lenders
PoliticsGreek PoliticsMinistry to the Interior Ministry. Skourletis had recently been openly opposed to the government’s..., Nikos Fylis, who refused any other position than Education Minister, which he had held since September... of Piraeus. Friday night’s other notable moves included State Minister Nikos Pappas being removed from his
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New Democracy comes out fighting against Tempe censure motion
PoliticsGreek Politics. The initiative was seized by PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis, and the motion was submitted jointly..., including the leaking of voter lists from the interior ministry to a New Democracy candidate. It alleges..., by attacking the credibility of former minister Nikos Pappas, who was convicted on criminal
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Newsletter 60 - 29/01/2016
that one of the ideas mentioned during an EU interior ministers’ meeting this week was for a large refugee... negotiations with lenders on potential additional measures for meeting this year’s fiscal target of 0.5... this week, for a meeting. In his first meeting with doctors, engineers and lawyers representatives
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Mitsotakis, Erdogan keep distance at UN as summer moratorium draws to close
PoliticsForeign Policy, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias also informed his European counterparts during their meeting about... government, which decided to represent itself at this year’s international high-level meeting... of the UN Assembly, as was the case in previous years. There is no special meeting with anyone from
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Mitsotakis sets aside talk of next Greek president to meet Trump at White House
PoliticsGreek Politicson the issues that Mitsotakis is likely to raise during the meeting with Trump, which will be the first... with Alexis Tsipras at the White House when the SYRIZA leader was prime minister, the timing of his meeting... to take place after the meeting, the fallout from Mitsotakis’s talks in Washington are likely
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