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New centre-left party keeps political options open at inaugural congress
PoliticsGreek Politicsfor the party. To Potami leader Stavros Theodorakis, who caused some surprise when he met with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras recently, and former prime minister George Papandreou both indicated that Movement... with the centre-right even before the next elections. Deputy Prime Minister Yiannis Dragasakis also
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Newsletter 156 -23/03/2018
, Kammenos Amid rumours that the coalition was heading for the rocks, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras... affair, as well as less prominent issues. Kammenos emerged from the talks at the prime minister’s... to be driven by a number of factors. Firstly, he knows that the two most likely options for Prime Minister
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Greece's foreign policy trap
Agoraenvironment it hopes to profit from in political terms lies in foreign, rather than economic, policy. Prime... to certain conditions. The prime minister also knows that the majority of those protesting against.... Ankara is also aware that this is a prime opportunity, given the turmoil in the US State Department
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Tsipras suffers setbacks in bid to build momentum ahead of MoU exit
PoliticsGreek PoliticsIf Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras was considering the option of calling snap elections soon after... to carry his SYRIZA party to a victory at the polls, the prime minister would probably narrow New... for the prime minister to bide his time. A Marc poll published in Proto Thema on the weekend suggests
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Newsletter 157 -30/03/2018
review, with the concern about delays to the process also hampering Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s... to a victory at the polls, the prime minister would probably narrow New Democracy’s lead and ensure... for the prime minister at this point is that like other polls, Marc’s survey confirms the leftists
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Soldiers' ongoing detention troubles Tsipras, riles Kammenos
PoliticsGreek PoliticsForeign policy issues featured prominently on the agenda of the cabinet meeting that Prime Minister... that a statement by the prime minister’s office a few days earlier had suggested that the Turkish... (28.5) see Mitsotakis as the most suitable prime minister, with Tsipras fairly close behind on 22.5
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Politicians increasingly focussing on post-MoU landscape
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government that believes Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras would be better off allowing... on law and order and migration as well as the economic front. The ex-prime minister pointed to his... served as Deputy Prime Minister in Samaras’s government, and Andreas Loverdos, who served
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Sustained friction with Turkey reveals differing views, approaches in Athens
PoliticsForeign Policy. The incident was not confirmed by Turkish Prime Minister Bilali Yildirim’s office, according to Hurriyet newspaper. The Prime Minister’s office issued a non-paper stressing that the incident... a different line again on foreign policy issues to the rest of the Greek government. The Prime
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Newsletter 158 -20/04/2018
on Thursday that Dimitris Liakos, the Minister to the Prime Minister, has sent an e-mail to all..., Liakos reminds the ministers that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras asked them during a cabinet meeting... and claims by Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim that his country’s coast guard officers removed
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PM tries to halt election speculation as poll gap widens
PoliticsGreek PoliticsPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras has asked SYRIZA MPs and members to refrain from speculating about... might be held. The prime minister was also due to address SYRIZA’s parliamentary group on Monday... Kranidiotis, who was previously an adviser to former prime minister Antonis Samaras. He also held talks
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