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SYRIZA set to name more MEP candidates, hoping for better results
PoliticsGreek PoliticsHaving navigated Monday’s national holiday without major incident, SYRIZA is turning its focus to Tuesday’s meeting of its political secretariat and the announcement of the latest batch of candidates for European Parliament elections. There were concerns in the government that Monday’s celebrations
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PM hopes North Macedonia visit, debt relief decision will provide lift
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s visit to North Macedonia this week and the rising chances of Friday’s Eurogroup approving the disbursement of almost 1 billion euros have given the government... that there is an agreement in place for the Greek air force to patrol North Macedonia’s air space, with the backing
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Tsipras to get election campaign underway as parties target middle class voters
PoliticsGreek Politics, with SYRIZA and New Democracy focussing most of their efforts on attracting support from Greece’s middle... SYRIZA’s manifesto in front of the TV cameras at the Megaron concert hall in Athens. This will be SYRIZA’s opportunity to press the reset button after a poor showing in the European and local elections
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ND, SYRIZA clash over public sector reforms ahead of vote on second govt bill
PoliticsGreek Politicsahead of Tuesday’s vote. The main thrust of the opposition’s attack on the bill was that it is a thinly... would create an “army of provisional staff” around the prime minister’s office. Tsipras said that under SYRIZA, the PM’s general secretariat had 10 offices, while under ND’s plan it will have 11, along
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Athens takes stock after PM's first talks with Erdogan, Balkan leaders
PoliticsForeign PolicyAthens appears satisfied with the results of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s first appearance... were on his first tete-a-tete with Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Mitsotakis’s main... EU-Turkey agreement and Ankara’s more active engagement to control the migrant flows towards Greece
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Newsletter 222 -04/10/2019
to protect Greece’s Aegean borders, the construction of closed centres for migrants who entered Greece... 20 percent are Syrians, who are eligible for asylum. Almost 39 percent of this year’s arrivals were.... It should be noted that Greece’s approval rate for asylum applications from these four destinations
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SYRIZA launches membership drive but still struggles with 2015 backwash
PoliticsGreek PoliticsSYRIZA’s attempts to look to the future as it seeks to broaden its voter base have been somewhat overshadowed by the dragging up of the party’s problematic past. The party has launched a website (iSYRIZA) to attract new members as it tries to rejuvenate its ranks following this summer’s election
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Spree of media deals puts spotlight back on ownership issues
Societythat that five families between them control all of Greece’s national broadcast licenses. This comes... attempts to reform the sector over the past few years, Greece’s main political parties are once...’s historical newspapers, daily Ta Nea and Sunday To Vima. The businessman also owned until recently
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Newsletter 231 -06/12/2019
has labelled the deal “illegal,” arguing that Libya’s prime minister does not have the legal... affected by Ankara’s bid to carve out the space to its south. The Greek government appears to have... following Turkey’s hydrocarbon research and drilling activities in Cyprus’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ
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Mitsotakis sets aside talk of next Greek president to meet Trump at White House
PoliticsGreek Politicsopportunity for Mitsotakis to gauge the US President’s views on issues that concern Greece... Turkish incursions in Nicosia’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Athens feels that Washington has... of the prime minister’s main aims in Washington. Following on from this, defence issues
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