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PM hopes to contain farmers' protests, seeks to close other open fronts
PoliticsGreek Politics, however, the prime minister knows that he will have to keep digging to address the vocal demands from
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Government courts backlash over squat raids, while opposition is absorbed in internal debate
PoliticsGreek Politicselection campaign. On Monday, police carried out coordinated raids on a number of squats in central.... The reaction was compounded by inflammatory statements from the head of the police officers’ federation POASY, who, when asked to explain the raids in a TV interview, described the police operation
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Newsletter 228 -15/11/2019
and the activities of anarchists and urban guerrillas. Scuffles between police and students at the Athens University of Economics and Business on Tuesday followed a week of police raids on premises connected... debated harsher penalties for possessing rioting materials. The intensifying police activity comes
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Newsletter 241 - 28/02/2020
and riot police over the previous days. The police had been sent to allow work on the construction... that the presence of the riot police was aggravating the situation, Mitsotakis reportedly gave the word for the riot police to be withdrawn, possibly temporarily from the island. Anger is running high
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Spotlight falls on public hirings as PM pledges more health staff
PoliticsGreek Politicsthe government will persist with the university police founded in its first term and following comments... by apparent flip-flopping from the government over whether the university police will continue as a separate body or whether its members would become special police guards, as Citizens’ Protection
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Policing in spotlight after shocking domestic violence incident
PoliticsGreek PoliticsThe failure of the police to prevent the murder of a woman by her ex-partner outside a local police... was knifed to death outside a police station in an Athens neighbourhood by her former partner... on the man, had been advised by duty officers to call the 100 emergency number because there was no police
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Clash with seasonal firefighters and new wiretapping report reopen old wounds for ND
PoliticsGreek Politicsas questions were asked again about the judicial investigation into the wiretapping scandal, and riot police... police used tear gas and batons against seasonal firefighters who were demanding 12-month contracts... covering the protest being attacked by police and then detained. The government defended the police action
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Coalition focuses on relief effort after fires as Mitsotakis holds back on criticism
PoliticsGreek Politicsto deter any members of his party from being too outspoken in their criticism of the government or other... ministers will hope that the swift response to the crisis aftermath will deter any discussion about
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Political leaders discuss stance on Turkey, as judicial interference case divides Parliament
PoliticsGreek Politicswas required to deter Turkey from undertaking hydrocarbon explorations on the Greek continental shelf... echoed Tsipras’s call for a tough response, saying that “Greece can and should deter Turkish
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Newsletter 434 - 27/09/2024
a statement by removing the MP, hoping to deter other sceptical parliamentarians from being so outspoken..., but this did not deter the parliamentarian from speaking out again. Speaking to ANT-1 TV on Tuesday
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