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  1. Government feels the heat over investigation on anniversary of Tempe rail crash
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    of the victims. The anniversary coincides with the winding up of the evidence phase

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  2. ND mulls next tax cuts as it prepares to unveil new electoral law

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    a meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos... representation system that will award a bonus to the winning party. Unlike the existing system, which... to use a sliding scale so the bonus is linked to the winning party’s performance. “We can’t have

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  3. Newsletter 113 - 31/03/2017

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    Skourletis, now head of the Interior Ministry, warned in an op-ed on Monday against the “cannibalisation... consenting to the proposed debt restructuring. Three binding offers were submitted for the acquisition... investment groups that have tabled binding bids. One the biggest stumbling blocks to have emerged

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  4. Fallout from Ukraine war being fed into calculations about next general elections
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    Interior Minister Stelios Petsas said that he does not expect elections, which are scheduled to take place... law with the aim of reducing the level of support needed for the winning party to claim.... The report suggested that the PM’s office has drawn up a scheme that would give the winning party

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  5. Search for solutions, not scapegoats in EU's refugee crisis
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    refugees and migrants arrive on its islands to prevent them simply moving on en masse to other... that one of the ideas mentioned during an EU interior ministers’ meeting last week was for a large refugee... in the hope of finding security, employment and welfare in a prosperous, democratic and socially liberal

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  6. Newsletter 87 - 09/09/2016

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    to recognise reality, while finding someone to pin the blame on. When German Interior Minister Thomas de... on Friday meant that the focus was very much on finding common ground on issues such as growth

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  7. PASOK launches attempt to form alliance that would rival SYRIZA
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    last week. Ex-Interior Minister Yiannis Ragousis attended the meeting, taking a different approach... at the next elections by winning back centre-left voters from SYRIZA and crushing the radical leftist... the kind of backing he would like from sections of PASOK in order to have a chance of winning the race

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  8. Parties mull changes to electoral law, top judge resigns

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    to Interior Minister Panos Skourletis the breaking up of the Athens “B” electoral district, a reduction of the bonus for the winning party from 50 to less than 40 seats in Parliament, allowing Greeks... representation system. This means the winning party will get no bonus at all. PASOK and To Potami did not vote

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  9. ND's electoral bill put before MPs as PM mulls options for president

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    term for Pavlopoulos but the likelihood of the ex-interior minister being given another five years has... party earning up to 50 extra MPs. According to the proposal, if the winning party passes the 25... in May 2012 did the winning party win less than 25 percent of the vote, when New Democracy gained

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  10. New political clash over police violence, but ND seems unperturbed

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    Interior Minister Makis Voridis, alleged that the man in question was known to the police, had... that Mitsotakis is far from the centrist liberal he portrays himself as. Winning strategy? It is possible that Mitsotakis sees this as a winning strategy and that SYRIZA’s tendency to pen itself

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