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  1. Sale of defence manufacturer stokes opposition criticism amid bid to bolster regional ties
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    a backdrop of increasingly vocal criticism of the government’s efforts to build closer diplomatic... for stable alliances in the region. Against this backdrop, Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis

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  2. New migration law passes amid questions over Chios tragedy
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    parliamentary debate and subsequent vote took place against the backdrop of a new deadly incident involving... Democracy of flirting with the far right. These exchanges were in keeping with the political backdrop

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  3. Speculation about election date resurfaces as Mitsotakis mulls options
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    come against an unwelcome backdrop for the ruling conservatives. Most of the opinion polls... tourism season would bolster the economic narrative and create a positive backdrop. A return

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  4. New Year reshuffle brings more MPs into cabinet, keeps key ministers in post

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    the deputy agriculture minister. Interior Minister Takis Thedorikakos has also been left out of the new... Petsas has been appointed Alternate Interior Minister, to be replaced by Christos Tarantilis... to the right” and “a party-political balancing act”. The elevation to the Interior Ministry of Makis Voridis

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  5. University bill threatens PASOK consensus as probes launched into alleged infractions by politicians
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    investigation in the Interior Ministry, which is the suspected source of the data leak, while on Tuesday.... The Interior Ministry has denied that it provides voters’ contact information, while the chief...’s EP elections, but also because the suspicions of a data leak emerged within days of the Interior

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  6. Newsletter 16 - 20/02/2015

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    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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  7. Approach to protests, policing poses a new quandary for government

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    portfolio 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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  8. Will Tsipras move to centre stage to secure deal with lenders?
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    within 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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  9. Launch of new movement highlights fragmentation of Greek centre-left

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    Former 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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  10. Bond issue decision expected as clock ticks down
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    in 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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