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  1. Turkey closes borders, Greece keeps up pressure
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    PoliticsForeign Policy

    to replace the EU–Turkey 2016 migration deal during a video conference call that he initiated on Tuesday...,” as he put it on Twitter. Dendias held a telephone call with his UK counterpart Dominic Raab just... in Libya. Dendias reportedly briefed Raab on the Greek positions and “on the dangers that are being created

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  2. General govt primary deficit at 3.87 bln in March; spending soars
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    EconomyMacroeconomy

    compared with a year earlier, followed by transfers, which were 277 million euros lower. Taxes... billion euros, landing at a deficit of 3.57 billion euros. The state budget primary balance

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  3. MP's departure ahead of multi-bill vote highlights pressure on coalition
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    receiving a phone call from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. The premier contacted him following... Independent Greeks (ANEL), where another MP – Nikos Nikolopoulos – is threatening not to vote for the multi... government was formed, apparently due to ANEL leader Panos Kammenos’s decision not to include him

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  4. Newsletter 141

    Newsletters

    minister and leader of the Independent Greeks (ANEL). Parliament is due to debate on Monday claims... of wrongdoing but has had to call on the backing of Tsipras and his party to do so. SYRIZA MPs voted... into the ANEL chief’s exchanges with Makis Yiannousakis, a shipowner convicted as part of the Noor-1 heroin

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  5. Greece's foreign policy trap
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    Agora

    Independent Greeks (ANEL), met on Tuesday amid rumours (albeit exaggerated ones) of a deep rift between... name issue, including ANEL’s opposition to the kind of deal that Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias... a deal that allows Greece’s neighbour to use the term “Macedonia.” However, the ANEL leader has also

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  6. Coalition back-and-forth over name deal belies election strategy
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    , thereby dismissing the request made by Independent Greeks (ANEL) leader and Defence Minister Panos Kammenos. The ANEL chief had suggested on Tuesday that the agreement with Skopje should be approved... be to call snap elections. It seems that despite Kammenos’s claims that the government will not see

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  7. Tsipras planning for life without Kammenos
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    to call on the support of some opposition and independent MPs to get the required support. Apart... Papachristipoulos of ANEL for support. He is also counting on the backing of four of the six To Potami... the support of ANEL and that a parliamentary majority could be maintained. The reality of the matter

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  8. Newsletter 180 -26/10/2018

    Newsletters

    Independent Greeks (ANEL), Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is not thinking of altering his plans. Reports... that the prime minister will be able to call on the support of some opposition and independent MPs to get... Kountoura and MP Thanassis Papachristipoulos of ANEL for support. He is also counting on the backing

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  9. Mitsotakis scoffs at coalition's MoU exit strategy, challenges PM to elections
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    Kyriakos Mitsotakis has challenged Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to call snap elections this year... of a general election later this year. “If SYRIZA and ANEL (Independent Greeks) mean all.... And if they are not afraid of New Democracy, let them take us on.” Mitsotakis said he challenged Tsipras to call

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  10. To Potami expected to provide clinching votes in vote on name deal
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    PoliticsGreek Politics

    (ANEL) MPs Elena Kountoura and Thanassis Papachristopoulos, independent lawmaker Katerina Papakosta... that the conditions have improved following the departure of ANEL from the coalition for a discussion... of its contents. The PM’s office also repeated its call for there to be a TV debate between Tsipras

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