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Government feels the heat after two days of catastrophic wildfires
PoliticsGreek PoliticsOpposition parties are demanding accountability from the government, after what they claim was a disastrous response to multiple wildfires which burned thousands of hectares of forest and farmland, encroaching into villages and suburbs, over the last 48 hours. The latest assessment of the damage
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Opposition lines up attack on government over wildfires with visits to affected areas
PoliticsGreek Politicsin areas including parts of western Greece, Attica and the island of Chios burned through forest
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Mitsotakis intervenes in EU migration debate as PASOK challenges wildfire policy
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe arson investigation authority and the Fire Service. It warned that forest fires threaten not only
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Government moves on fire compensation as opposition sharpens its questions
PoliticsGreek Politicsthat an estimated 42 percent of Attica’s forest cover has been burned by wildfires in the last decade
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Athens eyes GSI workaround to avoid dispute with Turkey
PoliticsGreek Politicsdevelopers want the blanket Natura 2000 and forest bans reconsidered site-by-site rather than applied
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Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015
in his cabinet, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras chose former New Democracy Interior Minister Prokopis... government, with Pavlopoulos as Interior Minister, issued a presidential decree that allowed fixed-term
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Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government
PoliticsGreek Politicsportfolio from the Interior Ministry to the Justice Ministry amid concerns that Panousis and Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis did not see eye to eye. It was notable that Justice Minister Nikos
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Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
PoliticsGreek Politicswithin the government, even leading to thoughts of removing Panousis’s portfolio from the Interior.... Interior Minister Nikos Voutsis and Alternate Minister for European Affairs Nikos Hountis
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Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left
PoliticsGreek PoliticsFormer Interior Minister Yiannis Ragoussis is set to launch a new centre-left movement on Wednesday, highlighting the fragmentation in this part of the Greek political spectrum. With PASOK... to liberalise the taxi sector while he was interior, and then transport, minister between 2009 and 2011. He
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Bond issue decision expected as clock ticks down
PoliticsGreek Politicsin September 2015, when then-Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis asked local authorities to list... Accounting Office because of fiscal concerns. It has been revived under the current Interior Minister Panos
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